Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis
ABSTRACTEekeeluak Avalak, an 18-year-old Inuk wrestler who won the first-ever gold medal for Nunavut at the Canada Summer Games in 2022, dedicated his win to his late brother who died by suicide in 2015. Avalak openly attributed sport – specifically wrestling – to saving his own life. This story rai...
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| description | ABSTRACTEekeeluak Avalak, an 18-year-old Inuk wrestler who won the first-ever gold medal for Nunavut at the Canada Summer Games in 2022, dedicated his win to his late brother who died by suicide in 2015. Avalak openly attributed sport – specifically wrestling – to saving his own life. This story raises important questions about the role of sport and traditional games in Inuit suicide prevention strategies. Few studies have examined the role of sport or traditional games in Inuit suicide prevention strategies. In an attempt to reduce Inuit suicide rates, in addition to the National Inuit Prevention Strategy, three of the four land claim regions that constitute Inuit Nunangat have suicide prevention strategies. In this study, we used settler colonial theory, critical Inuit studies, and content analysis to examine if and how sport and Inuit traditional games are identified as prevention tools in these Inuit suicide prevention strategies. The results demonstrate that sport and traditional games have largely been overlooked as protective factors in current Inuit-wide and land-claim specific suicide prevention strategies. Moving forward, evidence-based and community-driven approaches could be funded, created, implemented, and evaluated as culturally-safe Inuit mental health intervention models to address the disproportionately high suicide rates among Inuit in Inuit Nunangat. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-989aca4dab3e431f94897943736b0e992023-12-19T21:44:11ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health2242-39822023-12-0182110.1080/22423982.2023.2276983Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysisHannah Frazer0Audrey R. Giles1School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaSchool of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaABSTRACTEekeeluak Avalak, an 18-year-old Inuk wrestler who won the first-ever gold medal for Nunavut at the Canada Summer Games in 2022, dedicated his win to his late brother who died by suicide in 2015. Avalak openly attributed sport – specifically wrestling – to saving his own life. This story raises important questions about the role of sport and traditional games in Inuit suicide prevention strategies. Few studies have examined the role of sport or traditional games in Inuit suicide prevention strategies. In an attempt to reduce Inuit suicide rates, in addition to the National Inuit Prevention Strategy, three of the four land claim regions that constitute Inuit Nunangat have suicide prevention strategies. In this study, we used settler colonial theory, critical Inuit studies, and content analysis to examine if and how sport and Inuit traditional games are identified as prevention tools in these Inuit suicide prevention strategies. The results demonstrate that sport and traditional games have largely been overlooked as protective factors in current Inuit-wide and land-claim specific suicide prevention strategies. Moving forward, evidence-based and community-driven approaches could be funded, created, implemented, and evaluated as culturally-safe Inuit mental health intervention models to address the disproportionately high suicide rates among Inuit in Inuit Nunangat.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22423982.2023.2276983Inuitsporttraditional gamessuicide prevention |
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| title | Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis |
| title_full | Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis |
| title_fullStr | Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis |
| title_short | Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis |
| title_sort | are sport and traditional inuit games identified as tools in current inuit suicide prevention strategies a content analysis |
| topic | Inuit sport traditional games suicide prevention |
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