Canadian Inuit community engagement in suicide prevention

Inuit leaders announce national Inuit suicide-prevention strategy.

Youth engagement and suicide risk: testing a mediated model in a Canadian community sample.

Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents in many industrialized countries. We report evidence from a mediation model linking greater youth activity engagement, spanning behavioral and psychological components, with lower suicide risk through five hypothesized intrapersonal and interpersonal mediating factors. Self-report survey data (15% French, 85% English) were gathered from a co...

Community engagement in US and Canadian medical schools

INTRODUCTION This study examines the integration of community engagement and community-engaged scholarship at all accredited US and Canadian medical schools in order to better understand and assess their current state of engagement. METHODS A 32-question data abstraction instrument measured the role of community engagement and community-engaged scholarship as represented on the Web sites of a...

Postcolonial suicide among Inuit in Arctic Canada.

Indigenous youth suicide incidence is high globally, and mostly involves young males. However, the Inuit of Arctic Canada have a suicide rate that is among the highest in the world (and ten times that for the rest of Canada). The author suggests that suicide increase has emerged because of changes stemming in part from the Canadian government era in the Arctic in the 1950s and 1960s. The effect...

Suicide prevention programs through community intervention.

Broad general community campaigns were developed to reduce suicide rates. The aim of the current paper was to review such studies in the literature. The MEDLINE search using a combination of the keywords 'suicide', 'education'/'psychoeducation' and 'community' updated through January 10th 2010, returned 424 references and relevant for the current review were 48 with 14 papers reporting results....