CAUSAS MÚLTIPLAS DE ÓBITOS RELACIONADOS ÀS LESÕES AUTOPROVOCADAS E A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19

Abstract

The covid-19 pandemic simultaneously generated and amplified personal, social, medical, political, and economic crises, generating indirect health impacts, such as psychopathologies. In this context, a higher risk of suicidal behavior by vulnerable individuals is suggested. To better understand this new scenario of morbidity and mortality, this study was made using data available at Datasus. The multiple causes of death related to self-harm were used. It is compared as death notifications of the ICD-10 X60-X84 group, corresponding to intentionally self-harm units, in the year 2020 with the average of notifications in the five years prior to the pandemic (2015-2019). As main results, there was an increase in reports of “self-intoxication by and intentional exposure to other drugs, medicines and biological substances and to unspecified ones” and “intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation”; reduction of “intentional self-harm by falling from a height” and maintenance of “voluntary alcohol self-intoxication” as a cause with more proportional notifications as “basic cause” and “diagnostic mentions”. The data show that the pandemic has changed the patter of self-harm injuries. In addition, they contribute to the literary structuring about self-harm lesions.