Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Critical Investigation of the Factors that Influence the Collection of Suicide Surveillance Data

博士论文研究：对影响自杀监测数据收集的因素进行批判性调查

• 批准号: 1459811
• 负责人: Amber Wutich
• 金额: $ 2.45万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1459811&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Critical; Investigation

Suicide is one of the fastest-growing and least-understood causes of death. The scientific literature on suicide has long been dominated by the fields of psychology and sociology. While such insights are important, they are often rooted in socioeconomically and culturally narrow biomedical frameworks, and recent research has revealed that the risk profiles for suicide do not hold true across different social and cultural groups. This project, which trains a graduate student in how to conduct rigorous, empirically-grounded scientific fieldwork, explores how cultural understandings of suicide shape the processes designed to record and study these deaths. The data generated by this research will be of value to scientists who advise medical and law enforcement officials about how to resolve disparities between suicide propensities and risk profiles. Ashley Hagaman, under the supervision of Dr. Amber Wutich of Arizona State University, explores how suicide is perceived, categorized and documented. This research will take place in Nepal, where community reports speculate suicide to be the leading cause of death for women of reproductive age. However, national-level data do not corroborate with these findings. Therefore, suicide may be a much greater problem than nationally aggregated data suggest. National mortality data are filtered through reporting systems shaped by social, cultural, legal, and medical institutions. Data collected in Nepal would be representationally significant in helping understand suicide; more than 60% of the world's suicides occur in Asia. This study seeks to understand how suicide is perceived, contested, categorized, and documented in institutions ranging from the local (i.e., family, community) to the professional (i.e., medical, law enforcement) in Nepal. To untangle these processes, this research will investigate the following questions: (1) What are the material, social, and cultural factors that shape the understanding of suicidal acts in Nepal? (2) How do actors representing familial, community, legal, and medical institutions perceive, contest, and negotiate suicide documentation? (3) What accounts for the convergence or divergence of suicide data in local-level community reports and higher-level official suicide reports? The research will include a discourse tracing of suicide definitions, reporting, and documentation in law enforcement, health, and community institutions. The findings will advance anthropological and other social scientific theories related to suicide, knowledge production, and the institutional shaping of local lived experiences.

自杀是增长最快和最不被理解的死亡原因之一。关于自杀的科学文献长期以来一直由心理学和社会学领域主导。虽然这些见解很重要，但它们往往植根于社会经济和文化上狭隘的生物医学框架，最近的研究表明，自杀的风险状况在不同的社会和文化群体中并不成立。这个项目，培训研究生如何进行严格的，以牺牲为基础的科学实地考察，探讨如何自杀的文化理解形状的过程，旨在记录和研究这些死亡。这项研究产生的数据将对科学家有价值，他们建议医疗和执法官员如何解决自杀倾向和风险状况之间的差异。阿什利哈加曼，在亚利桑那州州立大学的琥珀Wutich博士的监督下，探索如何自杀的看法，分类和记录。这项研究将在尼泊尔进行，那里的社区报告推测自杀是育龄妇女死亡的主要原因。然而，国家一级的数据与这些调查结果并不相符。因此，自杀可能是一个比全国汇总数据显示的更大的问题。国家死亡率数据通过社会、文化、法律的和医疗机构形成的报告系统过滤。在尼泊尔收集的数据在帮助理解自杀方面具有代表性意义;世界上60%以上的自杀发生在亚洲。这项研究旨在了解自杀是如何被感知，争议，分类和记录在机构，从当地（即，家庭、社区）到专业人员（即，在尼泊尔的医疗，执法。为了解开这些过程，本研究将探讨以下问题：（1）什么是物质，社会和文化因素，形状的理解自杀行为在尼泊尔？(2)代表家庭、社区、法律的和医疗机构的行为者如何看待、质疑和协商自杀文件？(3)是什么导致了地方社区报告和更高级别的官方自杀报告中自杀数据的趋同或分歧？该研究将包括自杀定义，报告和执法，卫生和社区机构的文件的话语跟踪。这些发现将推动人类学和其他社会科学理论与自杀，知识生产和当地生活经验的制度塑造。