[Triggering factors in attempted suicide]. / Factores desencadenantes en la tentativa de suicidio.

A sample of hundred and thirty-six cases of attempted suicide is studied from the standpoint of principal trigger factor. Absolute and percentual frequencies are exposed and analysed the associations between principal trigger and other variables: sex, age, marital status, retirement, previous suicidal attempts, severity of the act, suicidal intention, psychiatric diagnosis and opinion about recidive.

[Criteria of severity in attempted suicide]. / Criterios de gravedad en la tentativa de suicidio.

Severity, understood as the use of means objectively able to produce death or serious injure, is found in approximately a third of the cases of attempted suicide that have been studied. It has been discovered a statistically significant association between the severity and other variables observed in the self-aggression behaviour: length in the place of residence, insomnia, previous self-aggression, time of the day, way of realization, main trigger and psychiatric diagnosis.