Ideação suicida e nível de desesperança em reeducandos do sexo masculino em uma penitenciária estadual mato-grossense

Abstract

People who were deprived of freedom suffer from several consequences, including the loss of some functions, such as being an elector, having money, traveling, photographing, and other things that, in according to the American sociologist Goffman, may be temporary or permanent and may cause painful feelings. Suicide in persons deprived of liberty is still poorly understood and this matter need to be explored in order to avoid the phenomenon, which is a responsibility of the State. This work aimed to analyse the lever of hopelessness and the risk of suicide of male subjects in reeducation in a penitentiary in the city of Sinop, Mato Grosso. This is a quantitative cross-sectional study conducted in the penitentiary Dr. Osvaldo Florentino Leite Ferreira, considering a population of 374 convicts in reeducation with a random sample of 60 individuals distributed in wards (half of them in evangelical sections, and the other half in the non-evangelical). The data collection instruments were the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation and the Beck Hopelessness Scale which have been fully implemented and managed by a psychologist member of this research, using a sociodemographic questionnaire. The participants were informed about the research and signed an informed consent form. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee (REC) of the Júlio Muller Hospital. Statistical analyses were carried out in the R environment (R Core Team, 2015) and the variables were correlated (score of scales) with the characterization of the subject made by a statistical member of this research. The results that were found show that the older individuals in reeducation tend to have more hope, in according to the Beck Hopelessness Scale. There were 71,6% of the individuals in reeducation that presented minimum scores of hopelessness, 26,6% of them with low scores and, in a positive way, 1,6% showed a moderate risk. By Beck Scale, 3,2% individuals in reeducation exhibited suicidal ideation. It wasn’t identified a correlation between hopelessness level and suicidal ideation.