{"title":"Seasonal differences in suicide birth rate in Alaska Natives compared to other populations.","authors":"P A Kettl, T Collins, M Sredy, E O Bixler","doi":"10.5820/aian.0801.1997.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0801.1997.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seasonal differences in suicide birth rates among Alaska Natives and for populations at different latitudes (residents of the Yukon, Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania) were investigated. Seasonal birth rates for the general population were similarly examined. Suicide birth rates showed small seasonal variations for Alaska Natives with summer births showing more suicides. However, at lower latitudes, suicide birth rates among other populations showed no seasonal differences. Hours of daily sunlight at the summer and winter solstice correlated with the proportion of suicide victims born during those seasons. Seasonal differences in birth rates of suicide victims correlated strongly with latitude and seasonal differences in daylight. General population birth rates did not show significant seasonal differences, and did not correlate with differences in latitude or sunlight length at the summer or winter solstice.</p>","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20383823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of injury mortality among Athabascan Indians in interior Alaska 1977-1987.","authors":"H B Andon","doi":"10.5820/aian.0703.1997.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0703.1997.11","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It was found that almost one-half of all Interior Alaska rural fatalities from thirty-six villages are due to unintentional and intentional injury. Drowning, motor vehicle crashes, hypothermia, fire, carbon monoxide poisoning and air transport crashes accounted for over 32% of all deaths; suicide and homicide account for over 15%. Many of these deaths are preventable.</p>","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"7 3","pages":"11-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20089374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative study of problematic gambling behaviors between American Indian and non-Indian adolescents within and near a Northern Plains reservation.","authors":"D Zitzow","doi":"10.5820/aian.0702.1996.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0702.1996.14","url":null,"abstract":"This study compared the gambling behaviors of American Indian adolescents with their non-Indian peers. Results indicated that perhaps due to socio-economic status, cultural issues, increased direct and vicarious exposure to gambling and gambling availability, that American Indian adolescents displayed greater frequency of gambling involvements, earlier onset of gambling experiences and greater tendency to exhibit problematic gambling behaviors.","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"7 2","pages":"14-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19900239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative study of problematic gambling behaviors between American Indian and non-Indian adults in a Northern Plains reservation.","authors":"D Zitzow","doi":"10.5820/aian.0702.1996.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0702.1996.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study compared the active gambling behaviors of American Indian adults, living on or near a reservation with those of non-Indian adults adjacent to or within the reservation. Results indicated that a variety of factors including economic status, unemployment, increased alcohol use, depression, historical trauma, and lack of social alternatives may predispose American Indian adults to greater problematic and pathological gambling behaviors. Unlike previous research that placed males at significantly greater risk for gambling problems, this study found that adult American Indian males and females appear to possess equal risk of problematic gambling.</p>","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"7 2","pages":"27-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19900240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special commentary.","authors":"B. Bowman","doi":"10.5820/aian.0301.1989.c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0301.1989.c","url":null,"abstract":"In a period of very tight municipal government budgets, a look at economic development incentives is very timely. State sponsored economic development incentive programs have long been deemed by some a necessary component of building a state’s economy. While each state takes a slightly different approach to their incentive programs, in general, there are four main types of economic development incentives: tax incentives, financial incentives, direct investment programs and research and development programs. These programs have long been staples of state economic development. However, interestingly enough, there are few accurate measures on the effectiveness of these programs. In this report, we explore the types of commonly used incentive programs utilized by several states, including some unique research and development incentives along with specialized state direct investment programs. In order to understand the effectiveness of these programs we look at the evidence, or lack of evidence, that provides insight into the optimal economic development strategy. We come to the conclusion that in order for states to justify allocating scarce state funding toward economic development incentives, a clearer understanding of the actual returns to these incentives needs to be obtained. Without better ways to measure state development incentive outcomes, the economic success of such initiatives remains uncertain.","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"5 1","pages":"42-50; discussion 51-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74399341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R D Walker, M D Lambert, P S Walker, D R Kivlahan, D M Donovan, M O Howard
{"title":"Alcohol abuse in urban Indian adolescents and women: a longitudinal study for assessment and risk evaluation.","authors":"R D Walker, M D Lambert, P S Walker, D R Kivlahan, D M Donovan, M O Howard","doi":"10.5820/aian.0701.1996.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0701.1996.1","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical studies of American Indian health and mental health have focused primarily on reservation samples or small cross-sectional school-based or treatment samples. Few studies have addressed these issues among urban American Indian populations. This paper introduces an ongoing ten-year prospective longitudinal study of alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and mental health status in a community sample of urban American Indian adolescents and women. The study uses structured interviews and diagnostic assessments to identify risk factors for, and measure prevalence of, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and psychopathology in 523 Indian youth and 276 Indian women. Study aims, rationale, research design, methods, sample characteristics, assessment instruments, and substance use prevalence are described, and methodological issues related to conducting longitudinal research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-47; discussion 48-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19714573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Indian and Alaska native aboriginal use of alcohol in the United States.","authors":"P J Abbott","doi":"10.5820/aian.0702.1996.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0702.1996.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alcohol beverages prior to White contact originated with the Mayan and the Aztec Nations and spread to the American Indians of the Southwest. Surprisingly, there are a number of accounts of alcohol use among other American Indians and Alaska Natives. Beverages were limited to wine and beer, and included: balche, pulque, and \"haren a pitahaya\" wines, tulpi beer and other beverages. White contact brought dramatic shifts in the use and function of alcoholic beverages in American Indian and Alaska Native societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"7 2","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19900238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special commentary.","authors":"B J Bowman","doi":"10.5820/aian.0702.1996.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0702.1996.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"7 2","pages":"42-50; discussion 51-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19900241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group therapy of aboriginal offenders in a Canadian forensic psychiatric facility.","authors":"J B Waldram, S Wong","doi":"10.5820/aian.0602.1995.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0602.1995.34","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, the use of group therapy approaches with Aboriginal or Native Canadians/American Indians has become widely accepted. However, many advocates of this approach rarely consider the implications of group therapy for culturally heterogeneous groups, such as when non-Aboriginal peoples are involved or when there are Aboriginal peoples from different cultures and/or with different degrees of orientation to Euro-Canadian culture. This article documents the use of one form of group therapy for Aboriginal offenders in a forensic psychiatric facility, where this degree of cultural heterogeneity exists. The article concludes that, at least within a forensic psychiatric setting, group therapies that mirror the social, cultural, racial, and class structures of Euro-Canadian society are problematic in the treatment of traditional Aboriginal offenders but much less so for acculturated Aboriginal offenders.</p>","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"6 2","pages":"34-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18737071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Health Service Deficit: the South Dakota experience.","authors":"V S Bhatara, W C Fuller, B S Fogas","doi":"10.5820/aian.0603.1995.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.0603.1995.56","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76990,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center","volume":"6 3","pages":"56-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19534371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}