'We must listen, hear and engage with everyone involved in suicide prevention, including people with lived experience, policymakers, clinicians, and academics. We all have a crucial role to move the conversation forward and prevent suicide.'
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Part of the work for #WorldSuicidePreventionDay2024 is understanding experiences people have, world over
Our qualitative scoping review in "non-WEIRD" countries focus-young people & parents is underway.
111 papers included, just 21 in Africa, 31 South America, 47 across Asia
It's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay2024 today
How do we achieve this in relation to different cultures & contexts?
Our group of international researchers & clinicians meet tomorrow for 3 days to plan research addressing this for young people & their families funded by @GW4Alliance
Our team from South Korea, Ghana, UK, Rwanda and Brazil are developing research on how young people & families experience youth suicide &self-harm, across different global contexts
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Research in review
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3679… by @linongeri1 et al
This study in Kenya reveals reasons for suicidal behaviour that are seen in high-income countries, however pulls out important issues for consideration for locally relevant prevention / support interventions
Research in review
suicidology-online.com/pdf/S… Pathways to Suicide Attempts in Nicaraguan Young Men
This study draws to our attention the importance of the experience of frustration. A lifestyle of shifting, discontinued social relationships was also described by the men.
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We are doing a scoping review of qualitative research around self-harm & suicide in young people in so-called "non-WEIRD" countries.
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We're just getting going so would love to get in touch with more people interested understanding self-harm and suicide in young people and the importance of culture.
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We are starting out with a scoping qualitative literature review re: self-harm and suicide in young people. Core aims
1) How have researchers done this work - where, what concepts, with whom etc
2) What themes are there in the qualitative work
Your thoughts?
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Made up of researchers from across the GW4 universities (Cardiff, Bath, Exeter, Bristol) and with partners in South Korea, Ghana, and Brazil, we are developing research relating to youth self-harm and suicide.