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1. Factors associated with 'feeling suicidal': the role of sexual identity

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Abelson, Jeanne, Lambevski, Sasho, Crawford, June, Bartos, Michael, and Kippax, Susan

Subjects
Suicidal behavior -- Risk factors, Suicidal behavior -- Research, Psychology and mental health, Sociology and social work, Women's issues/gender studies
Abstract

This paper examines factors associated with feeling suicidal in a large sample of urban men in Sydney and Melbourne, aged 18-50, including heterosexual, gay and bisexual men, HIV antibody positive and HIV antibody negative. As in previous research, sexuality (being homosexual or bisexual) was found to be a major predictor of suicidality. The research went some way towards explaining the close relationship between feeling suicidal and sexual orientation. Sexuality interacts with feeling bad in that, once men feel moderately bad/depressed, they are more likely to feel suicidal if they are homosexual or bisexual than if they are heterosexual. In addition, the research found that experience of verbal abuse and physical assault (harassment) increased feeling suicidal for both heterosexual and gay/bisexual men, not just for homosexual men as suggested by previous research, and that social isolation in the form of living alone is a further risk factor. Seeking counseling help and taking sexual risks were also independently associated with feeling suicidal. These actions may result from feeling suicidal rather than the reverse, and their association with feeling suicidal warrants further research. Many of the 46 independent variables examined in the research, including HIV antibody status and closeness to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, were related to feeling suicidal only through their association with being gay/bisexual. Celibacy and general risk taking were not related to feeling suicidal in this study. KEYWORDS. Feeling suicidal, suicidality, men's sexuality, harassment, social isolation, sexual risk taking, counseling, HIV/AIDS

Published
2006

5. Risk for hepatitis C: Transition and initiation to injecting drug use among youth in a range of injecting drug user networks

Author

Treloar, Carla, Abelson, Jeanne, Crawford, June, Kippax, Susan, Howard, John, van Beek, Ingrid, Copeland, Jan, Weatherall, Anne Maree, and Madden, Annie

Subjects
Risk perception, Youth, IDU, digestive, oral, and skin physiology, Australia, 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified, Risk taking, Injecting equipment, Hepatitis C
Abstract

This project, funded by NHMRC and NSW Health, aimed to investigate and report on a number of aspects of initiation and transition to injecting drug use among young people. The report focuses on issues of: • transition to injecting – what drugs were used prior to injection, what was participants’ contact with injectors; • the initiation episode – describing the factors about the occasion (what drugs were used, where injecting equipment was accessed), as well as characteristics of the initiator and their social networks; • the effect of drug most frequently used – between current stimulant and opioid injectors; • age at initiation – differences between early and late initiators; • hepatitis C status – self-reporting of positive hepatitis C serostatus; • risk practice for blood borne viruses – variables of risk, demography, and social networks are examined in determining those more likely to self-report risk practices such as sharing, borrowing or re-using injection equipment; • transitions out of injecting – we examine patterns of drug use and efforts of participants to reduce or stop drug use., NCHSR MONOGRAPH 8/2003

Published
2003
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6. Living as men 'it's like being in a washing machine': Masculinities in contemporary urban Australia

Author

Lambevski, Sasho, Kippax, Susan, Crawford, June, Abelson, Jeanne, Bartos, Michael, and Mischewski, Anton

Subjects
111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Abstract

The study surveyed a large number of men recruited from Sydney and Melbourne as well as conducting close focus in-depth interviews with a smaller number of them. This report draws on a selected number of topics from the interview data with implications for public health policy and practice.

Published
2001
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