Comportamento suicida em pós graduandos no contexto da pandemia da Covid-19: revisão de escopo

Abstract

Introduction: Suicidal behavior includes thoughts of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and suicide. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified risk factors associated with suicide, such as job or economic loss, mental disorders, and created barriers to access to healthcare. Objective: To map the evidence of suicidal behavior in graduate students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eligibility criteria: They followed the structure of the acronym PCC. Participants - documents that include stricto sensu graduate students. Concept - documents that reported suicidal behavior. Context - documents that were within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as of December 2019. Method: The search strategy was applied in MEDLINE/® PubMed® and adapted in the other databases: EMBASE(® Elsevier); CINAHL® (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature/EBSCO); LILACS® (Scientific and Technical Literature of Latin America and the Caribbean/VHL – Virtual Health Library); PsycINFO® (APA) and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). A search was conducted for the gray literature in Google Scholar® and Bank of Theses and Dissertations of Capes. The review considered primary research studies, with quantitative and qualitative designs. There were no language limitations. There was a limitation on the date of publication, where articles were considered from the emergence of the novel coronavirus in the city of Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The recovered results were inserted into EndNote v.X9 and duplicates were removed. The selection of studies was performed using the online platform for systematic reviews Rayyan QCRI20. The selection was made by two independent reviewers blindly and the possible disagreements were resolved by consensus between the two reviewers. The results of the process of search and inclusion of studies were presented in a flow diagram PRISMA - Extension for Scoping Reviews. Data were extracted using the standard extraction tool in JBI's scoping review approach, tailored to meet the scope review objectives. The data extracted were: characterization of the studies, participants, concept, context and key findings relevant to the review question. Results: The search strategy located 1,615 studies, of which 703 duplicate articles and 120 articles were excluded because they were published before December 2019. Thus, 792 studies remained for reading the title and abstract. Next, 21 studies were selected for full-text reading, and 12 articles were included in the analysis of this research. It is observed that in master's students suicidal ideation was studied and in doctoral students it was possible to identify studies on suicidal ideation, planning and suicide attempt. Research has shown that the pandemic has changed the experiences of graduate students, increasing the risks of developing suicidal behavior. Conclusion: The findings contribute to the knowledge about the development of care strategies to be carried out in universities, aimed at graduate students.