A5084129339- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Community Health and Development
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2012-2024
University of Hawaii System
2012-2024
Abstract This study compared self-reported risk factors for suicide among American high school students in the last decade. Data from 1999–2009 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys was analyzed by 8 ethnicity groups across 6 suicide-related items: depression, ideation, planning, attempts, and attempts requiring medical attention). Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander adolescents had higher prevalence of suicide. Multiracial were also at behaviors, with a comparable to Indian/Alaska adolescents. Overall,...
Suicide rates have reached their highest documented levels in the United States with greatest increases among indigenous youth, including Native Hawaiians. Culturally informed, effective prevention and treatment services are needed now more than ever for communities to heal flourish. Multicomponent service strategies rooted values approaches show most promise. Hawaiian united around a common goal of suicide prevention, intervention postvention, linking cultural meanings improve understanding...
Service learning is endorsed by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) as an integral part of U.S. medical school curricula for future physicians. has been shown to help physicians in training rediscover altruistic reasons pursuing medicine and potential enhance students' perspectives humanism medicine. The Kalaupapa service project a unique collaboration between disadvantaged post-baccalaureate students with underserved rural community. This study was conducted determine whether...
The objective of this study was to determine the longitudinal predictors past-6-month suicide attempts for a diverse adolescent sample Native Hawaiians, Pacific peoples, and Asian Americans. used data from Hawaiian High Schools Health Survey (N = 2,083, 9th 11th graders, 1992-1993 1993-1994 school years). A stepwise multiple logistic regression conducted. final model consisted three statistically significant predictors: (1) Time 1 attempt, odds ratio 30.6; (2) state anxiety, 4.9; (3) parent...
Multivariate dynamic relationships among suicide attempts, anxiety and/or depressive symptoms, hope, and help‐seeking were examined across time in Native Hawaiian non‐Hawaiian adolescents, using data from a 5‐year longitudinal cohort study ( N = 7,317). The rate of attempts decreased over time, but this reduction was significantly less youth than their peers. There also significant differences between groups hope help‐seeking, with increasing decreasing to greater degree. Youth‐centered,...
The Prevent Suicide Hawaiʻi Taskforce is a state, public, and private partnership of individuals, organizations, community groups that leads statewide suicide prevention efforts in Hawaiʻi. purpose this evaluation was to identify the progress barriers inform upcoming 2025 Prevention Strategic Plan following areas: Hope, Help, Heal, Research Evaluation, Policy Advocacy. Utilizing sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach, 18 key informants were interviewed, followed by 13-question survey...
Population Medicine considers the following types of articles:• Research Papers -reports data from original research or secondary dataset analyses.• Review -comprehensive, authoritative, reviews within journal's scope.These include both systematic and narrative reviews.• Short Reports -brief reports research.• Policy Case Studies articles on policy development at a regional national level.• Study Protocols -articles describing protocol study.• Methodology -papers that present different...