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Adolescent suicide risk and peer-related violent behaviours and victimisation
- Authors:
- EVANS William P., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 16(12), December 2001, pp.1330-1348.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study seeks to better understanding the link between peer-related violence and suicide risk among youth. The study uses data gathered from Arizona, Nevada, and Wyoming, where the highest rates of adolescent suicide in the United States are found. Higher levels of reported suicide risk were prominent among the multiethnic, urban, and female respondents. Male and female respondents who perpetrated violence by initiating fights, threatening to use weapons, and using weapons to assault others were more likely to be classified in the high-risk suicide group than those who did not. General results were similar for victims and those witnessing violence. Implications for preventing programming and future research are discussed.
Report of the Independent Review of Deaths and Serious Incidents in Police Custody
- Author:
- ANGIOLINI Elish
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Home Office
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 292
- Place of publication:
- London
The report of an independent review to examine the procedures and processes surrounding deaths and serious incidents in police custody. It also examples why the current investigation system has not met the needs and expectations of bereaved families. The report includes coverage of the following areas: restraint, substance misuse and intoxication, mental health, ethnicity, suicide, children and young people, and family support. The report makes 110 recommendations, regarding the use of restraint, the custody environment, training for officers and making it easier for families facing inquests into deaths in police custody to access legal aid. These include a new presumption that legal aid should be awarded to families in cases of deaths in police custody and that police cells should no longer be used for under 18s in mental health crisis from December, and for post-incident support to be available for bereaved families. (Edited publisher abstract)
Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2013, public mental health priorities: investing in the evidence
- Authors:
- DAVIES Sally C., et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 320
- Place of publication:
- London
The 2013 annual report of the Chief Medical Officer looks at the epidemiology of public mental health, the quality of evidence, and possible future innovations. It aims to increase transparency about progress within public health and to help encourage improvements across England. The first chapters provide the Chief Medical Officer's response to the evidence-base and the challenges facing public health in England. They also make 14 recommendations to improve the public’s mental health. These are grouped into the areas of: commissioning and service development; information, intelligence an data, work, workforce training and practice; and policy. The remainder of the report is written by a range of internationally recognised experts who provide evidence about key issues in public mental health in England. Sections covered are: science and technology; mental health across the life course (covering children, young people, adults and older adults); the economic case for better public mental health: parity of esteem and the importance of treating mental health as equal to physical health; and the needs and safety of people with mental illness. This section includes discussion of violence, suicide and self-harm; addictions, dependence and substance misuse; and ethnic inequalities and social exclusion. Key highlights from the report include the need to acknowledge that mental health is just as important as mental health and the need to help people with mental illness stay in work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Suicides in ethnic minorities within 12 months of contact with mental health services: national clinical survey
- Authors:
- HUNT Isabelle M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 183(8), August 2003, pp.155-160.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Information on suicide by psychiatric patients from ethnic minority groups is scarce. This article aims to establish the number of patients from ethnic minorities who kill themselves; to describe their suicide methods, and their social and clinical characteristics. A national clinical survey was based on a 4-year sample of suicides in England and Wales. Detailed data were collected on those who had been in contact with mental health services in the year before death. In total 282 patients from ethnic minorities died by suicide – 6% of all patient suicides. The most common method of suicide was hanging; violent methods were more common than in White patient suicides. Schizophrenia was the most common diagnosis. Ethnic minority patients were more likely to have been unemployed than White patients and to have had a history of violence and recent non-compliance. In around half, this was the first episode of self-harm. Black Caribbean patients had the highest rates of schizophrenia (74%), unemployment, living alone, previous violence and drug misuse. In order to reduce the number of suicides by ethnic minority patients, services should address the complex health and social needs of people with severe mental illness.
Suicide in ethnic minority groups
- Authors:
- McKENZIE Kwame, SERFATY Marc, CRAWFORD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 183(8), August 2003, pp.100-101.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Suicide rates are higher in areas where ethnic minority groups are in lower concentration. This is not due to confounding by gender, age, deprivation or unbalanced migration. This effect may not be due to ethnicity per se, as other density effects have been demonstrated. At an individual level, socio-economic stress, thwarted aspirations, racism, acculturation, culture clash with parents, loss of religious affiliation, difficulty with identity formation, and loss of family and community support may have effects on suicide risk. However, context is important; all of these risk factors are influenced by the socio-economic situation of the group, its culture and history, and the mainstream social environment.
Comparison of the outcome and treatment of psychosis in people of Caribbean origin living in the UK and British Whites: report from the UK700 trial
- Authors:
- McKENZIE K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, February 2001, pp.160-165.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The comparative outcome of psychosis in British Whites and UK African-Caribbeans is unclear. Some report that African-Caribbeans have worse outcome, whereas others claim better symptomatic outcome and a more benign course. This research aims to compare the course, outcome and treatment of psychosis in African-Caribbeans and British Whites in a large multi-centre sample. Outcome measures (hospitalisation, illness course, self-harm, social disability and treatment received) were adjusted for socio-economic and clinical differences between groups at baseline using regression analysis. Results found African-Caribbeans were less likely to have a continuous illness and to receive treatment with antidepressants or psychotherapy. Concludes that the outcome of psychosis is complex but differs between UK African-Caribbeans and British Whites. This may reflect risk factors that increase the rate of psychosis in UK African-Caribbeans. Treatment differences require further investigation.
Ethnicity: an agenda for mental health
- Editors:
- BHUGRA Dinesh, VEENA Bahl
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 202p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets the scene for identifying and meeting the mental health needs of black and minority ethnic people. Includes chapters on: ethnicity; a national perspective on mental illness; cultural aspects of mental disorder in primary care; pathways into care; epidemiological factors in research with ethnic minorities; risk factors for psychosis in the UK African-Caribbean population; common mental disorders among African-Caribbean general practice attenders in Brixton, London; ethnicity and alcohol misuse; child psychiatry; cross cultural approaches to dementia and depression in older adults; suicide; postnatal depression in Japanese women who have given birth in England; forensic psychiatry; joint working; user views of mental health services; NHS services for black patients; alternatives to institutional psychiatry; and the role of general practitioners.