Association between physical activity and suicidal attempt in Hispanic female adolescents from United States of America
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https://doi.org/10.47464/MetroCiencia/vol30/4/2022/44-54Keywords:
physical activity, suicidal attempt, adolescenceAbstract
Introduction: Moderate physical activity is proven to decrease the risk of suicidal attempt in male adolescents, but in women is not yet established. Objectives: Our objective was to study the association between physical activity intensity and suicidal attempt in Hispanic female adolescents younger than 17 years old from database 2015 Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System (YRBSS). Methods: Secondary analysis of a YRBSS database. We calculated the Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) through logistic regression. Results: A total of 1852 subjects were included for analysis. Four out of 10 students reported moderate physical activity and 15% of them attempted suicide one or more time. Physical activity and suicidal attempt had no significant association (OR:1.06 95% CI:0.69-1.62). There was no significant association between physical activity and suicidal attempt, but suicide attempt is significantly associated with age, alcohol use, active sexual life, and age of beginning of sexual relationship. Non adjusted and adjusted Odds ratio showed higher risk to commit suicide for younger girls, of those who do not use alcohool or no having sexual relationship before 15 years old (OR 0.44 (0.19-1,00), 0.47 (0.33-0.56) 0.40 (0.26-0.63) 0.58 (0.37-0.89, respectively). Conclusions: Physical activity was found no to be associated with suicidal attempts. Late adolescence, no consumption of alcohol, not having sexual intercourses and beginning sexual relationships in late adolescence may be protective factors against suicide.
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