Strategies for suicide prevention

Rihmer, Zoltán; Belsó, N.; Kiss, Kitty

doi:10.1097/00001504-200201000-00014

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“…Commentaries about men's depression, however, suggest that the lower reported rates might be due to the widespread use of generic diagnostic criteria that are not sensitive to depression in men (Blair-West & Mellsop, 2001;Brownhill, Wilhelm, Barclay, & Schmied, 2005;Cochran & Rabinowitz, 2003;Courtenay, 1998;Kilmartin, 2005;Winkler et al, 2006;Winkler, Pjrek, & Heiden, 2004), as well as men's reluctance to express concerns about their mental health and reticence to seek professional health care (Emslie, Ridge, Ziebland, & Hunt, 2006;Sharpe & Heppner, 1991;Winkler et al, 2006). Severe depression can also significantly increase the risk for suicide; yet despite low reported rates of male depression (Emslie et al, 2006;Kessler et al, 2005;Wilhelm et al, 2008;World Health Organization, n.d.), suicide rates are approximately four times higher in Western men than in women (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012; Hawton & van Heeringen, 2009;Levi et al, 2003;Moller-Leimkuhler, 2003;Rihmer, Belso, & Kiss, 2002;Statistics Canada, 2012a, 2012bWasserman, 2000;Wolfgang & Zoltan, 2007). The discordant relationship between men's depression and suicide has led researchers to describe some contributing and confounding work-related factors.…”

Section: Men's Work-related Depression and Suicidementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Workers’ Compensation

Oliffe

Han

2013

Am J Mens Health

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The mental health of men is an important issue with significant direct and indirect costs emerging from work-related depression and suicide. Although the merits of men's community-based and workplace mental health promotion initiatives have been endorsed, few programs are mandated or formally evaluated and reported on. Conspicuously absent also are gender analyses detailing connections between masculinities and men's work-related depression and suicide on which to build men-centered mental health promotion programs. This article provides an overview of four interconnected issues, (a) masculinities and men's health, (b) men and work, (c) men's work-related depression and suicide, and (d) men's mental health promotion, in the context of men's diverse relationships to work (including job insecurity and unemployment). Based on the review, recommendations are made for advancing the well-being of men who are in as well as of those out of work.

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Section: Men's Work-related Depression and Suicidementioning

confidence: 99%

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Oliffe

Han

2013

Am J Mens Health

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“…Brownhill, Wilhelm, Barclay, and Schmied (2005) detailed the potential for a cascade of events in which men's internalizing and avoidance of problems and/or self-medicating with alcohol and other drugs was linked to risk-taking, violence, aggression, and death. Reluctance to seek help and maladaptive self-management strategies such as self-medicating depression and suicidal ideation with alcohol and other drugs (Riska, 2009) may also be a by-product of stigma, and contribute to the discordant relationship between men's high suicide rates and low rates of clinically diagnosed depression (Mäkinen & Wasserman, 2000;Rihmer, Belso, & Kiss, 2002;Rutz & Rihmer, 2007).…”

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Suicide From the Perspectives of Older Men Who Experience Depression

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Depression can be a pathway to older men's suicide, yet the mechanisms by which this can occur are poorly understood. A qualitative study of 22 older men who self-identified or were formally diagnosed with depression was conducted to describe the connections between masculinity, depression, and suicide. Analyses of individual interviews revealed that cumulative losses around social bonds were central to older men's depression, apathy for living, and thoughts about suicide. Prominent were men's self-assessments of failing to fulfill breadwinner roles, judgments that led participants to ruminate on their shortcomings amid recognizing their older age as limiting opportunities for redemption. Stigma featured as a barrier for men acting on their suicidal thoughts, and guilt about the pain their suicide would evoke on family and friends was a strong deterrent for men's self-harm. Overall, participants' alignment to masculine ideals influenced both the connectedness and detachment between older men's depression and suicide.

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“…Theoretically, any intervention that helps reducing these risk factors could ultimately reduce the suicidal rate; however this has not been solidly proven for most of these variables (39). Unfortunately research on suicide is limited by the fact that the majority of suicide victims die by the first attempt (52,53).…”

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Avrupada ekonomik kriz ve özkıyım istatistikleri

Fountoulakis

2014

Dusunen Adam

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Strategies for suicide prevention

Cited by 66 publications

References 35 publications

Beyond Workers’ Compensation

Beyond Workers’ Compensation

Suicide From the Perspectives of Older Men Who Experience Depression

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