BRAZILIAN SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF PRODUCTION ON SUICIDE OF 1996 TO 2007

Abstract

A survey of scientific literature on suicide, published in Brazil during the period 1996 to 2007, in order to gather material for the training of health professionals who deal with or at risk of suicide attempts in SUS´s patients. The collection includes books, theses and dissertations, journal articles and weekly magazines in print media.The work team was composed of librarians, and mental health professionals as consultants.Traditional survey was conducted in databases on the Internet, followed by research in the Lattes Platform of the authors of the references collected. In Lattes was possible to collect bibliographic information that had not been found in any of the databases consulted earlier. Moreover, it was possible to identify discrepancies between titles and the existence of co-authors on some information obtained. A collected material bibliometric analysis was used to identify the state of the art of suicide in Brazilian production.This report aims to point out one more way for the scientific research by information professionals and draws attention to the frequent asymmetry of information between the records from bibliographic databases available and curriculum on the Internet.