Concordia University, Canada.
Health (London). 2022 Jan;26(1):81-99. doi: 10.1177/13634593211060767. Epub 2021 Nov 27.
Following the implementation of a provincial suicide prevention gatekeeper training initiative in western Canada between 2015 and 2018, we conducted a focused ethnography designed to capture the post-initiative context within one small community. Analyses of our field observations and interviews with community members suggest suicide prevention work is represented in multiple informal or coordinated actions to generate innovative pathways to provoke open conversations about suicide. Simultaneously, suicide talk is constrained and managed to limit vulnerability and exposure and adhere to community privacy norms. Further, parameters around suicide talk may be employed in efforts to construct the community and mental health care in livable ways. As the research process paralleled existing representations of suicide prevention work in the community, this paper explores our entanglement in the bounds of suicide talk during phases of recruitment, data collection and knowledge translation activities.
在 2015 年至 2018 年期间，加拿大西部实施了省级预防自杀守门员培训倡议之后，我们进行了一项重点民族志研究，旨在捕捉一个小社区内倡议后的背景。通过对我们的实地观察和对社区成员的访谈进行分析，研究表明，预防自杀工作体现在多种非正式或协调的行动中，旨在开辟创新途径，引发关于自杀的公开对话。同时，自杀话题受到限制和管理，以限制脆弱性和暴露度，并遵守社区隐私规范。此外，自杀话题的参数可能被用于努力以可居住的方式构建社区和精神保健。由于研究过程与社区中现有的预防自杀工作代表并行，因此本文探讨了我们在招募、数据收集和知识转化活动阶段中被束缚在自杀话题界限内的情况。
