Factors Associated with Suicide Ideation among American Indian Adolescents: Does Culture Matter?

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior - Tập 29 Số 4 - Trang 332-346 - 1999
Douglas K. Novins1, Janette Beals2, Robert E. Roberts3, Spero M. Manson4
1Assistant Professor, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver.
2Associate Professor, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver.
3Professor, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver.
4Professor, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston.

Tóm tắt

Data from self‐report surveys of 1,353 high school students representing three culturally distinct American Indian tribes were analyzed for tribal differences in factors associated with suicidal ideation. In the multivariate analysis, no single correlate of suicide ideation was common to all three tribes. The correlates of suicide ideation were consistent with each tribe's social structure, conceptualization of individual and gender roles, support systems, and conceptualization of death. These results underscore the heterogeneity of suicide ideation across three distinct American Indian tribes consistent with their cultural heterogeneity. Suicide prevention and screening programs may be difficult to adapt from one tribe to another.

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