Citation

Fox J, Manitowabi D, Ward JA. Can. J. Psychiatry 1984; 29(5): 425-427.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6478387

Abstract

This report deals with the five year follow-up after a suicide epidemic on a Manitoulin Island Indian Reserve in 1974 and 1975. In the succeeding years, the suicide rate has dropped to a tenth of the level of the epidemic and has reached the levels for the rest of Manitoulin Island including the White and Native population. There has been a corresponding drop in the rate of violent death and of the number of suicide attempts. It is suggested that the multi-dimensional prevention and intervention measures reported here have contributed to a significant improvement in present conditions.

Language: en