Asociación entre la funcionalidad familiar y la ideación suicida en estudiantes de Psicología de la Universidad Santo Tomás, sede Bogotá

Abstract

The present research aimed to determine the association between suicidal ideation and family functionality in psychology students of the Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, through the application of two psychometric tests, the Positive and Negative Suicidal Ideation Inventory (PANSI) and the family APGAR. With this, we sought to answer the question: What is the association between family functionality and suicidal ideation in psychology students of the Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá? The research was experimental in nature, correlational in scope and quantitative in approach, with a representative sample of 190 students (of which 2 students decided not to participate) of Psychology at the Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, of the 342 active students in the program. For the analysis of the results, normality test (Kolmogorov - Smirnov) and Spearman's correlation were used, because of the non-parametric behavior of the variables; additionally, descriptive statistics were calculated to account for the most significant variables of the group. The main data found indicate that the APGAR test evidences a high satisfaction in the family functioning of most students, on the other hand, the PANSI test with negative suicidal ideation reveals a small number of students who lack protective factors, which leads to the PANSI test with positive ideation that reflects, in most students, high levels in protective factors. The results show an inversely proportional correlation, therefore, the lower the score on the APGAR test, the higher the suicidal ideation; the correlation and the relative risk data shows that students with a minimum score on the APGAR test increase suicidal ideation by 400%, which leads to the conclusion that there is a high probability that the perception of family functioning influences suicidal ideation.