Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. GEORGIA

In 1997, the state of Georgia law enforcement community was made painfully aware of suicide & its consequences following a series of closely-spaced suicides. This painful awakening led to the conclusion that suicide awareness & prevention are the responsibility of every leader. With the support of the Georgia Chief’s & Georgia Sheriff’s Associations, a request […]

To investigate the asssociation between self-reported HIV discrimination & health outcomes among women living with HIV, 366 women were recruited from HIV/AIDS clinics in Georgia & Alabama. In this cross-sectional study, participants completed an interview. Nearly a sixth of the sample reported experiencing HIV discrimination. These women had higher mean scores for stress, suicide ideation, […]

This study examined sucide ideation & depression in undergraduates at Emory University. 729 students participated over a 3-school-year interval (2002-2005). 11.1% of the students endorsed current (past 4 weeks) suicide ideation & 16.5% had a lifetime suicide attempt or self-injurious episode. Students with current suicide ideation had significantly higher depression symptom severity than those without […]

This study sought to develop a set of easily obtainable, relevant measures of a community’s condition that could be used to guide its suicide prevention efforts. Existing data were gathered across 159 Georgia counties for 9 potential social indicators that had been chosen by the communities. Data on these from 1995-1999 were averaged & analyzed […]

This report discusses the outcomes of a suicide prevention training series for providers of mental health & addictive diseases services who serve adult consumers. The training was developed in clusters of 3 training events delivered in two days at 5 locations throughout Georgia by the QPR Institute. 12 recommendations are made for future programming.

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This paper examines a new class of statistical designs where random assignment to intervention condition occurs at multiple times in a trial. As an example, the authors present a large ongoing trial to evaluate a gatekeeper training suicide prevention program in 32 schools which initially began as a classic randomized wait-listed design. A general result […]

The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between suicide & cocaine & ethanol use among completed suicides in Fulton County, Ga., from 1994 through 1998. The authors found significant race, sex, & age differences among the victims who had used cocaine & ethanol before committing suicide, especially in teenage victims. Overall, ethanol […]

The Georgia Suicide Prevention Plan provides a framework for statewide involvement in suicide prevention at the local, regional & state levels. It proposes a five-step public health model of suicide prevention as a systematic approach to developing & implementing interventions that are effective in reducing suicide. Major action steps concering awareness, intervenion & methodology goals […]

This article describes the development of a screening instrument for the selection of inmates most at risk of suicide & thus in need of suicide prevention services. Implications concerning future refinement & cross-validation of this instrument are discussed. (9 refs)

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The aim of the current study was to determine which variable would be a better predictor of suicide risk: perceived social support or serum cholesterol level. Perceived social support was found to be a better predictor for African Americans. Depressed patients with a history of suicide attempt had a significantly lower serum cholesterol level, scored […]

The goal of this study was to determine whether clinically depressed, healthy-weight, overweight, & obese females would differ significantly on self-esteem & suicide risk measures. 165 clinically depressed females completed the self-esteem rating scale and the suicide risk scale. Depressed, obese White American females had significantly lower self-esteem & increased suicide risk than depressed healthy-weight […]

The authors sought to test the consistency of the findings from the Add Health project that are related to the primary protective/risk factors in adolescents. Emotional distress & suicidality were 2 indicators that assessed adolescents’ emotional well-being. Overall, approximately 17% of the sample reported suicidal thoughts, whereas approximately 7% of the sample indicated they actually […]