Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. MISSISSIPPI

Annual suicide deaths outnumber the total deaths from homicide and war combined. Suicide is a complex behavioral endpoint, and a simple cause-and-effect model seems highly unlikely, but relationships with weather could yield important insight into the biopsychosocial mechanisms involved in suicide deaths. This study has been designed to test for a relationship between air temperature […]

This study analyzed alcohol in fatalites in Hinds County, Mississippi (a dry county) compared to Contra Costa County, California (a wet county). Data on all unnatural deaths during a 1-year period among those 18 years & older were abstracted from county coroner’s files. 222 cases in Hinds County & 304 cases in Contra Costa County […]

To examine the perspectives of high school students regarding no-suicide agreements, 96 high school students were randomly assigned to read a vignette about the use of therapy in conjunction with a no-suicide agreement in the case of a 15-year-old suicidal adolescent, & to rate their attitudes toward the intervention. Overall, students were more positive toward […]

See SIEC #1997-1273 for reference to the Phillips et al study.

This article reports survey results of 233 school guidance counselors, 42% of whom reported that grief counseling services were available in their schools. This 1993 study also determined if such services were initiated by a specific death, if services were ongoing, & the primary provider of services. Findings indicate there is a real need for […]

In March 1994 Jones County, Mississippi (MISS) signed a consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department requiring a dramatic upgrading of jail conditions. The jail was 1 of 18 MISS jails investigated for grossly substandard living conditions & inadequate jail suicide prevention procedures, This report details the investigations & summarizes remedial measures. The state’s largest […]

This technical journal, published quarterly, provides information on developments in the field of jail suicide prevention. The Spring issue (Volume 5 No.4) contains 3 articles: 1) U.S. Justice Department’s Investigation of Jail Suicides in Mississippi: A Status Report (SIEC AN 940274); 2) American Indian Suicidal Behavior in Detention Environments: Cause for Continued Basic & Applied […]

In May 1993, the US Justice Department began an investigation of 18 city & county jails in Mississippi. The focus of the study was suicide prevention procedures & included on-site inspections, critiques of jail procedures, reviews of suicide incident reports, & staff & inmate interviews. All of the jails were required to develop & implement […]

This research among 1,915 Mississippi adolescents investigated whether lonely adolescents who use illicit substances were at increased risk of hopelessness. Lonely, substance-using adolescents were 25 times more likely to be severely hopeless than the reference group of non-substance using, not-lonely adolescents. Because hopelessness often is an indicator of suicidal behaviour, these results may have important […]

An awareness of suicide as a medical problem is necessary if any sort of preventive measures are to be effected. Though it is extremely difficult to prevent the suicide of a person determined to take his own life, the physician has better opportunities than anyone else to recognize the potentially suicidal individual. Treatment that the […]

A study of the effectiveness of suicide prevention centres; firstly by interviewing clients to discover their expectations when calling a suicide prevention centre and secondly by discussing the expectations of the therapists involved with suicidal patients. (KB)

A 4-year follow-up of veteran’s treated on a small alcoholism ward revealed that only 16% of those who completed treatment had no further drinking incidents reported on their V.A. records.