@article{ref1,
title="Community leaders' attitudes towards and perceptions of suicide and suicide prevention in Ghana",
journal="Transcultural psychiatry",
year="2019",
author="Osafo, Joseph and Akotia, Charity S. and Quarshie, Emmanuel Nii-Boye and Andoh-Arthur, Johnny and Boakye, Kofi E.",
volume="56",
number="3",
pages="529-551",
abstract="Community leaders can play an important role in suicide prevention because they are potential gatekeepers in resource-poor settings. To investigate their attitudes towards suicide and the role they play when people are in suicidal crisis, 10 community leaders were interviewed in a rural community in Ghana. Thematic Analysis of the interviews showed that leaders held two conflicting views about suicide: health crisis and moral taboo. They also viewed the reasons for suicide as psychosocial strains more than psychiatric factors. Though they viewed suicide as a moral taboo, they maintained a more neutral position in their gatekeeping role: providing support for persons in suicidal crisis more often than exerting a condemnatory attitude. Implications for gatekeeper training are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1363-4615",
doi="10.1177/1363461518824434",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461518824434"
}