FRHD 3090 Chapter Notes -Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, World Health Organization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3090
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Nunavut: suicide death rate among inuit people has increased over last 3 decades. Over 120 per 100,000 people commit suicide (10x more than canadian rate) Main goal of learning from lives that have been lived : to identify reasons behind each suicide death in order to understand, predict and prevent suicide in the future. Follow-back design used look retrospectively into lives of both individuals who died from suicide and individuals who are still living with comparable backgrounds to identify risk and protective factors associated with suicide. Maximum age in study was 62, minimum age was 13. Average age of suicide was 24. 6 years old. Twice as likely to have been involved in legal problems. 4 times likely to have had less than 7 years of education. More experiences childhood abuse and had been physically and/or sexually abused in childhood. Levels of impulsiveness and aggression much higher.