O fenômeno do suicídio: aspectos de prevenção ao suicídio de policiais militares na pmma

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This monograph consists of a bibliographic, documentary and empirical research on the prevention of suicide by military police. In this context, this proposal takes shape, primarily on the following question: How can the suicide prevention of military police officers in Maranhão be improved? In an attempt to answer this question, contact was sought with the Social and Psychological Assistance Sector of the Military Police and the following objectives were developed: To collect statistics on police suicide cases in Brazil and Maranhão between the years 2015 to 2019 ; Identify the motivating factors for suicide among the military police of the riot police in Maranhão; Check how the suicide prevention actions are carried out in the corporation. A bibliographic and documentary survey was also carried out, in the main virtual databases and on the websites of the Brazilian Public Security Forum, Institute of Applied Economic Research, World Health Organization, Ministry of Health, among others. Thirty materials were chosen, including articles, monographs, scientific journals and reports, of which 17 were part of the research's reference base. In addition to these sources, a questionnaire with voluntary participation was applied to the military police of the Battalion of Shock of the Military Police of Maranhão, to find out mainly which stress factors are most related to suicidal thinking. There were a total of 48 respondents. The results were consistent with those found in the literature and pointed to the existence of a worrying number of cases of suicide attempts in the corporation