Risk of suicide is associated with high rates of death in chronic hemodialysis patients. In Brazil only few studies have measured your prevalence, evolution and mortality. OBJECTIVE: Study the prevalence, evolution and mortality of risk of suicide in two nephrology units for three years. METHODS: The Mini was used in three moments. Frequency and evolution of Risk of Suicide was analyzed. Kaplan-Meier Curve and Cox Regression was used to study the mortality. RESULTS: 244 patients in 1st step, 200 in 2nd and 110 in 3rd. Risk of suicide was diagnosticated in 40 in 1st, 49 in 2nd and seven in 3rd period. Between the 1st and 2nd period, nine patients death, 29 followed with the condition and 20 others patients presented risk of suicide. Between the 2nd and 3rd period thirteen death, seven followed with the condition and 29 changed the disorder. The death incidence in patients without disorder was 3.35 and in patients with risk was, 9.91 (RR = 2.87; IC de 95% [1.69-4.87]). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of risk of suicide was high, and this condition was associated with high rates of mortality.
Psychiatric disease; hemodialysis; MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview
