PSYCHOSOCIAL CONTEXT OF SUICIDE OF WOMEN INSIDE RIO GRANDE DO NORTE
Suicide; Gender and Health; Psychosocial impact
Suicide is an intentional and deliberate act of putting an end to one's life. There are several factors related to this
type of self-inflicted death, which may be related to the biological, psychological and social. In this scenario, the
gender relations are predicted as predictors of suicide, and all individual and non-individual factors that are based
on social relations. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze the psychosocial context of women who
committed suicide in the city of Caicó / RN. It is a qualitative research that uses the psychosocial autopsy method
as a means to approach this phenomenon in a socially wide way and to seek singularities of the human dimensions.
First-degree relatives of women who committed suicide between the years 2011 and 2016 were interviewed.
The analysis of the collected material will be carried out through the thematic content analysis, using a theoretical
reference on gender relations and suicide. Finally, it is expected that this study may reveal particularities about the
suicide of women from the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, and may even subsidize preventive measures for suicide.