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You've Gotta Be That Tough Crust Exterior Man

Depression and Suicide in Rural-Based Men

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ID4630724
AuthorsGenevieve Creighton (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author), John L Oliffe (0000-0001-9029-4003, University of British Columbia), John Oliffe (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), John S Ogrodniczuk (0000-0002-3531-9033, University of British Columbia), John Ogrodniczuk (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Blye Frank (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Year2017
Volume27
Issue12
Pages1882-1891
Publication date2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732317718148
PMID28936927
OpenAlexW2760047475
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited49

Suicide rates in Canada are highest among rural men. Drawing on photovoice interviews with 13 women and two men living in a small rural Canadian town who lost a man to suicide, we inductively derived three themes to describe how contextual factors influence rural men's experiences of depression and responses to suicidal thoughts: (a) hiding depression and its cause, (b) manly self-medicating, and (c) mobilizing prevention. Further discussed is how gender relations and ideals of masculinity within rural milieu can inhibit men's acknowledgment of and help seeking for mental illness issues. Participants strongly endorsed a multifaceted approach to the destabilization of dominant ideals of masculinity that likely contribute to depression and suicide in rural men

Masculinity · Medical emergency · Photovoice · Poison control · Psychiatry · Rural area · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology

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Unique citing works25
Citations per year3,13
Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 23

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