Suicidal thoughts and attempts in First Nations communities: links to parental Indian residential school attendance across development

The Indian residential school (IRS) system in Canada ran for over a century until the last school closed in 1996. Conditions in the IRSs resulted in generations of Indigenous children being exposed to chronic childhood adversity. The current investigation used data from the 2008–2010 First Nations R...

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Published in:Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Main Authors: Bombay, A. (A.), McQuaid, R.J. (R. J.), Schwartz, F. (F.), Thomas, A. (A.), Anisman, H. (Hymie), Matheson, K. (Kimberly)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
collective trauma
developmental stage
Indigenous
intergenerational
mental health/illness
Canada
Indian
First Nations
Online Access:https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/19519
https://doi.org/10.1017/S2040174418000405
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Summary:The Indian residential school (IRS) system in Canada ran for over a century until the last school closed in 1996. Conditions in the IRSs resulted in generations of Indigenous children being exposed to chronic childhood adversity. The current investigation used data from the 2008–2010 First Nations Regional Health Survey to explore whether parental IRS attendance was associated with suicidal thoughts and attempts in childhood, adolescence and in adulthood among a representative sample of First Nations peoples living on-reserve across Canada. Analyses of the adult sample in Study 1 (unweighted n=7716; weighted n=186,830) revealed that having a parent

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