Banca de DEFESA: LUCAS GOMES MACIEL

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STUDENT : LUCAS GOMES MACIEL
DATE: 12/02/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Sala 630 - Labpsi/UFRN
TITLE:

Doctor’s Understanding of the Underreporting of LGBTQIA+ Suicide Atempts in Natal

 

KEY WORDS:

reporting; suicide attempts; LGBTQIA+ population; phenomenological research.

PAGES: 158
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Although the phenomenon of suicide attempts among LGBTQIA+ individuals is garnering increasing attention, statistics regarding these occurrences remain scarce or even non-existent. Despite information systems advancing and becoming the foundation for information and knowledge management, they do not seem to contain sufficient information about this community. In Brazil, data on suicide attempts are stored in the SINAN (Information System for Notifiable Diseases). These are reported by physicians from both public and private healthcare networks, based on medical records, and registered in the systems by the units' epidemiological surveillance teams through the Individual Notification Form, which includes fields for sexual orientation and gender identity. Even with these fields, data relating to suicide attempts among LGBTQIA+ people do not seem to be identified in the system, rendering the existence of these cases invisible within this population. Thus, this research aimed to understand, from a Heideggerian phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective, the experience of physicians regarding the notification of suicide attempts among LGBTQIA+ individuals. To this end, four open-ended individual interviews were conducted with on-call physicians at Emergency Care Units (UPAs) in the city of Natal/RN, who attended to cases of suicide attempts. The interviews were recorded in a "diary of affectations" and interpreted in light of Heideggerian thought and the hermeneutic circle of understanding applied to psychological research. From the interviews, it is possible to highlight the lack of training and the absence of readiness-to-hand regarding existing instruments for the correct notification of the phenomenon. Such absences directly impact professional action, which lacks a standard procedure to follow, and even the self-perceptions of the professionals, who do not see themselves as notifying agents. Internalized LGBTphobia and compulsory heteronormativity also emerge as aggravating factors, as does the absence of discussions on gender and sexuality in medical education. Finally, we reiterate the need for medical sciences that break away from naturalistic biases and dwell hermeneutically upon those who demand their attention.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1879584 - ANA KARINA SILVA AZEVEDO
Externo à Instituição - PAULO VITOR NAVASCONI - UNESP
Externa à Instituição - SILVIA RAQUEL SANTOS DE MORAIS - UNIVASF