Preventing suicide in indigenous communities
| Autor: | Allison Crawford, Nicole M. Coupe, Simon Hatcher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Suicide Prevention
Economic growth Canada Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Cultural identity Ethnic group Australia Poison control Human factors and ergonomics Suicide prevention Indigenous United States 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Suicide 0302 clinical medicine Political science Scale (social sciences) Injury prevention Indians North American Humans 030212 general & internal medicine New Zealand |
| Zdroj: | Current opinion in psychiatry. 30(1) |
| ISSN: | 1473-6578 |
| Popis: | Purpose of review To provide an update on recent studies on suicide prevention in indigenous populations with a focus on recently colonised indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Recent findings There have been several recent reviews on suicide prevention in indigenous populations with high suicide rates. However most of them describe the problem and there is little new that is available on effective interventions. One randomized controlled trial of a package of measures focusing on cultural identity in Maori who had recently self-harmed compared to usual care found little effect on suicidal behavior but it did significantly reduce presentations to hospital for any reason after one year. Summary The reasons for the limited evidence include a lack of ring fenced funding and a lack of research infrastructure; the problem of high rates of suicide but small numbers; and the difficulty in creating effective collaborations between researchers and communities. Potential solutions include identifying specific research funding; improving capacity in indigenous research; putting effort into accurate identification and recording of ethnicity; and thinking about the problem of suicide in recently colonised populations as a global problem to enable large scale high quality studies to take place. |
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