Suicide

Tests Robert Agnew's general strain theory to explain suicide in minority groups. Results shows how coercive parenting, caretaker rejection, and negative school attitudes contribute to youth suicide.

Argues that the interdisciplinary team approach is the ideal way for essential services to be delivered to northern communities and offers ways to achieve more effective collaboration.

Discusses how Indigenous theatre can provide a space to learn, examine, remember, and heal.

Explores Inuit suicide prevention concepts including essentials of mental health, relationship skills building, and community engagement.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2006.

Describes the approach the program takes to ensure that students graduate with the necessary skills, attitudes, knowledge and values to be effective professionals.

Activities designed for use with the novel Choosing Life: Bobby's Story by Gilles Pinette. The target audience is young adults.

Study discusses differences in suicide methods and high levels of untreated mental illness and substance abuse among many of the individuals who had taken their own lives.

Looks at a study of characteristics in suicide attempters with the goal being to develop more effective suicide prevention strategies.

Looks at health challenges faced by First Nations children, barriers in implementing children's right to health, and best practices.

Overview to health crisis and Nishnawbe Aski Nation's plan to implement recommendations made by the Auditor General's report Access to Health Services for Remote First Nations Communities.

Contends that the risks differ between the two groups.

A study of over 500 subjects, aged 18-28 found that Sami were more likely to have suicidal thoughts compared with the rest of the population.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 2001.

Looks at connections of suicidal thoughts in a sampling of American Indian youth between the ages of 9 to 16 living near or on reservations in the upper Midwestern United States.

Higher rates of ideas of suicide among Métis women compared with Métis men points to the logic in gender responsive programming.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2006.

A sample of 5,340 students from 109 schools in the Saskatoon Health Region revealed that 340 (6.4%) had considered suicide at least once in the past 12 months.

Compares two groups for risk factors and how associations to suicidal ideation differ between races.

Looks at data collected on suicidal indicators including demographics, socio-economic status, cultural status, behaviours, life stress, and health care use.

Discusses the increase in youth suicides since the 1950s when modernization began.

An overview of RCAP findings about suicide, the extent of occurrence, contributing factors, prevention initiatives, barriers and solutions.

Discusses risk factors and school-based programs that emphasize adaptation to local norms and customs.

Looks at research on suicide and attempted suicide among Canadian Aboriginal peoples, and reviews culturally appropriate interventions.

Clinal Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Alliant International University, 2006.

Findings reveal a higher than average rate affecting adolescents and young adults, with rates among young males increasing.

Looks at the Human Relations Areas Files (HRAF) as a source of data which can be used to show how case studies can test theories of suicide and estimate suicide rates.

Introduction to a special issue that focuses on the high risk of Indigenous youth suicide.

Studies found that suicide is multi-determined and that there are no simple answers to the youth epidemic experienced worldwide. However, colonialism, and the residual effects of it, are cited as a common factor in all worldwide studies of suicide rates among Indigenous Peoples.

Investigates the suicide mortality between subgroups according to age, gender, cultural context, and traditional Sami core management.

Looks at mental health interventions and promotion as components in suicide prevention.

Review of records that compares and contrasts suicide characteristics found rates similar to national aboriginal figures.

Study uses data from the National Board of Forensic Medicine to analyze suicides amongst reindeer herding Sámi in Sweden; considerations include: time of year, method, age, gender, and region.

Comments on suicidal behaviours and prevention strategies.

Shows how the economic, social and cultural environment contributes strongly to risk levels in a community.

Examines the need for culturally appropriate mental health services for the prevention of Aboriginal youth suicide and the importance of positive youth development to foster healthy mental, emotional, social, spiritual and physical development.

Review of current literature dealing with the differences between rates of occurrence in the general population and Alaska Native people.

Study suggests a correlation between increased economic opportunities among First Nation communities and decreased rates of suicide and careless death.

Looks at value where by older people grow up to protect younger people and if it can offer any insight or response to the high rates of suicide among young Aboriginal men.

Study found a positive correlation between the number of hospital beds and suicide and homicide rates among United States Indian Health Service (IHS) areas. This study puts into question previous studies which found a negative correlation between the same variables.

Looks at prevention and intervention efforts in a community that has successfully lowered its rate of suicide and other self destructing behavior.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 1989.

Describes common patterns and differences among the populations.

Study found that increasing protective factors was more effective than decreasing risk factors.

Looks at risk factors such as socio-demographic conditions, emotional/behavioural problems, and parent-child relationship.

Out of a survey of 99 Inuit, aged 14-25 years of age, 34% of respondents reported a previous suicide attempt.