[Identification and evaluation of suicidal risk in general practice]

ABSTRACT

Suicide is a major public health problem in many countries. In morocco, and in the absence of official statistics, some indicators suggest that our country is not immune to this phenomenon. In current medical practice, any physician may be confronted with this problem, and therefore, must know how to detect and assess patients at risk. The presence of psychiatric disorders, especially depression, a history of suicide, impulsive behavior, severe somatic pathologies, and a context of solitude are proven vulnerabilities. The assessment of suicide risk requires well-conducted interview, to determine the risk, the urgency of the threat and the danger of suicide scenario, this assessment is preferably based on standardized tools, as the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, which was translated and validated in Moroccan dialect. However, the problem of specificity and sensitivity of this evaluation still persists