Evolución clínica de los sujetos diagnosticados de códigos X en la Unidad de Salud Mental de la Infancia y de la Adolescencia de Santiago de Compostela, que posteriormente asisten y no asisten a la Unidad de Salud Mental de Adultos de la misma área sanit

Introduction: X codes encompass suicides, suicide attempts and parasuicides (1,2). Objectives: 1. Describe the general profile of codes X in Mental Health Unit for Children and Adolescents (MHUCA) during 2000-2012. 2. Compare the profiles of subjects attending Mental Health Unit Adult (MHUA) and not. 3. Describe the profile in MHUA. Material and Methods: Longitudinal descriptive observational study in which X codes were selected in MHUCA of Santiago de Compostela. For statistical analysis of data was used IBM SPSS Statistics 21 software. Conclusions: A 1.12% of diagnoses made in USMIA correspond to X codes and of these, 19%, all of them women, continues its assistance USMA. The general profile of code X in MHUCA is: girl, 14.10 years, who takes psychotropic drugs for poisoning and not repeats the autolytic attempt. The differential profile in subjects who attending and not for MHUA is determined by: MHUCA type of care, psychiatric family history and other drug use. Individuals who attend MHUA are primarily diagnosed of depressive and personality disorders, the latter being which repeat the autolytic attempt at adulthood. None commits suicide.