Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. ARIZONA

A 37-year-old woman died from lead poisoning after drinking up to 3 cans of hair spray per day for 1-2 months. An analysis of 3 cans of the victim’s hair spray revealed large concentrations of lead. An investigation was conducted to examine if the extremely high concentrations of lead found in the victum’s hair spray […]

This study tests Goffman’s hypothesis that familiarity with deviants tends to increase tolerance toward deviance. The SOQ was administered to a sample of University of Arizona undergraduate volunteers. Answers were factor analyzed using a principal component rotation. Seven factors emerged, composed of 31 questions and accounting for 24% of the total variance. Results indicated atempters […]

The high rate of suicide in Phoenix, Arizona, prompted student Judy Pshak to write her prize-winning essay that resulted in the development of Any Town, a week-long camp sponsored by the National Conference of Christians & Jews. The camp teaches teens how to get along in society, gives them an opportunity to express their feelings, […]

This study is based on 1969-70 research among the White Mountain Apaches of east-central Arizona. The hypothesis that no matter what form of pathological behavior occurs, the response of the affected social system will be either tolerance or intolerance, was supported. The hypothesis that the degree of disruptiveness or harm created by the act determines […]

This study attempted to determine if biorhythms can predict suicidal behavior. More specifically, researchers analyzed critical days in the 23-day physical cycle, the 28-day emotional cycle and the 33-day intellectual cycle popularized by Gittelson to determine if people are more prone to suicidal behavior during those times. However, statistical analysis found that none of these […]

Identification of the social, psychological, physical, economic and demographic variables most closely associated with suicides committed by white males, aged sixty and over, in Arizona, 1970-76. (KB)

Study to determine the rates and demographic characteristics of student suicides in higher education within the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, and a comparison with studies from Berkeley, Harvard and Yale. (KB)

Statistical breakdown of suicides in Arizona by year from 1970-1981; and then for 1981, by month; by method; by age group; by marital status; by race; by county of residence and by sex. (KB)

A 30-month study explored the degree to which self-destructive behavior compromised tuberculosis therapy & prophylaxis among Southwestern Indians. The frequency of isoniazid (INH) overdosage paralleled the extent of INH usage in each tribe & the extent to which INH was prescribed for each tuberculsis category. The authors recommend various measures to prevent such overdoses from […]

An epidemiological study of injuries revealed that hospitalized & fatal injury rates among Hopi Indians in 1979-80 were 12/1000 per year. Falls, motor vehicle crashes,self-inflicted injuries & assaults were the leading causes of injuries. Suicides & crashes were the leading causes of death. The age group 15-19 constituted 25% of the population & accounted for […]

First published in “Hospital & Community Psychiatry”, 23(12): 361-363, December 1972.

Because their suicide rates are consistently the highest of the 60 and older population in the USA, a strong rationale exists for focusing the attention of suicidological and gerontological research on older white males. A study of geriatric suicide occurring in Arizona during 1970-75 resulted in a profile of the “typical” older white male suicide […]

The consistently high suicide rates of older white males provide a strong rationale for increased study of the geriatric suicide problem. Data related to white males aged 60 & older who killed themselves in Arizona during 1970-75 are presented. Also included are discussions of: the typical means of lethality employed; geriatric suicide rates; clues to […]