Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. OREGON

Oregon Violent Death Reporting System data were linked with Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative data to identify and describe veterans who completed suicide in Oregon from 2000 to 2005 (n = 968), and to describe their VA health care utilization in the year prior to death. Twenty-two percent had received health care in the VA system. […]

This report includes 3 studies associated with inmate suicide within Oregon’s Department of Corrections. The first is a statistical analysis that recognizes inmate static & demographic factors that differentiate the average inmate from the inmate at higher risk for a suicide attempt. The second analysis identifies the inmate static & dynamic factors that differentiate the […]

Occurence & recurrences of suicide ideation were modelled among boys/men assessed annually from ages 12 to 29 years. Multi-spell discrete-time event-history analyses permitted determination of whether risk for suicide ideation escalates with prior experiences of suicide ideation while accounting for changes in risk with time & controlling for vulnerability factors. Period effects supported decreasing risk […]

A before-after study was used to determine whether limited follow-up of positive findings on depression screening improves recognition & initial management of depression. Consecutive patients in a Veterans Affairs primary care clinic in Oregon were studied, including 160 in the 3 months before & 97 in the 3 months after the intervention began. The mental […]

This report examines suicide-related hospitalizations & death in Multnomah County, Oregon by age group & gender. Older males were found to have high suicide death rates. Adolescents appear to have high suicide attempt rates both in Multnomah County & nationally. Strategies for prevention are also presented. (9 refs.)

This document outlines a strategy to reduce suicide rates among American Indians & Alaska Natives living in the Pacific Northwest by increasing tribal capacity & improving collaboration. The primary goals of the plan are to: increase knowledge & awareness about suicide & in doing so take steps to address the stigma that exists in many […]

This report provides quantitative & qualitative findings from Year 2 of the Oregon University Suicide Prevention Project. The progress achieved towards meeting the four goals outlined in the original grant proposal is discussed. Results of the evaluation demonstrated that there was success in meeting most of the benchmarks established for the goals. The second part […]

This plan identifies 3 primary strategies to prevent suicide in older adults in Oregon: clinically based suicide prevention; community based suicide prevention; & public health surveillance, program evaluation, & research. For each strategy, a list of objectives is included with a variety of action ideas for accomplishing these.

Fatal and nonfatal injuries due to suicidal behavior among younger adolescents are of growing concern for many communities. We examined the incidence and patterns of these injuries among persons aged 10–14 years using three databases, two national and a third from Oregon. Suffocation and firearm gunshot were the leading external causes of suicide; poisoning and […]

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