UNDERSTANDING THE SILENT CRISIS: AN ANALYSIS OF SUICIDE METHODS AMONG KENTUCKY FEMALES

Background: Suicide has been called the ‘silent crisis’. As rates have increased in recent years, it is now the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Within the state of Kentucky, females die by suicide most often through the use of firearms, differing from the national trend where poisoning is most common. With a drastic increase in firearm suicides has been observed beginning in 2010. The aim of this study is to investigate why Kentucky females who have died by suicide are using firearms most often, as opposed to other methods, and compare those results to other states in order to further understand this trend. Methods: All suicides reported to the National Violent Death Reporting System were eligible for this study. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to determine which variables, including demographic, personal circumstance, mental health, and suicide-related, were related to firearm suicide. Results: Kentucky females who died by suicide were not receiving mental health treatment, only 36% were diagnosed and 24% in current treatment. Within comparison states, increased mental health diagnosis and treatment was associated with decreased odds of firearm suicides. It was found that females living in rural counties, and those who were depressed or had intimate partner problems/violence in Kentucky were more likely to die by firearm suicide. Conclusion: These results contribute to understanding firearm suicide among females in Kentucky and guides efforts for interventions for at-risk populations and future research. This study specifically highlights mental health care with recommendations to emphasize means reduction counseling as a strategy to eliminate barriers to this care. Advocating for more comprehensive state gun laws and policies is also recommended

The social implications of the Sermon on the Mount

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1937. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

From Archidamus to Alexander: The Revolution in Greek Warfare

Then Alexander The Great crossed the Hellespont to launch his invasion of the Persian Empire in 334 D.C., he commanded an army of some forty thousand troops of mixed type. Herelied upon the Macedonian phalanx of heavy infantry, which his father had perfected, but he also employed both light and heavy cavalry, peltasts (light-armed infantry), skirmishers, archers and slingers, and other specialized troops. The soldier. themselves consisted of Macedonian citizens, allied Greek troops, and Greek mercenaries. By contrast, the army that the Spartan king Archidamus commanded in his invasion of Attica almost a century earlier, during the Peloponnesian War, consisted primarily of citizen-soldiers from Sparta and allied states. In short, Alexander\u27s army was quite different in composition, organization, and diversity from the traditional armies of classical Greece. This factor surely counted for much in Alexander\u27s amazing success in conquering Persia, although the generalship of the king himself was also obviously crucial

Tripping in the Moment: The Spiritual Journey of Baba Ram Dass

Ram Dass, the iconic, countercultural, spiritual seeker, brought the wisdom of the East to those of us in the West through his many books and frequent, charismatic dharma talks. This view of his spiritual journey describes the transformation of Richard Alpert, clinical psychologist and product of the Western milieu’s often-shackling conventional expectations, into Ram Dass, the free, embodied soul who, through explication and example, and with witnessing attention, tries to guide us all to the always present abode of loving awareness. Ram Dass’s idea of self in existence was transformed: first, from a psychological object of clinical study, to a shared experience of co-discovery, and finally, to the witnessing soul who, with full attention, came to recognize the self in, and as continuous, moment to moment spiritual transformation

The development and application of a test to detect certain habits of the scientific attitude among high school science students

This investigation is concerned with the development and application of a test to detect certain habits of the scientific attitude among high school science students. Preliminary investigation relative to the problem centered around the two following procedures: (1) An attempt to determine and define the scientific attitude and its relation to scientific method. (2) A consideration of the results of previous studies related to the above problem