Suicide in Sri Lanka

Widger, Tom

doi:10.4324/9781315743707

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“…The burgeoning literature by medical anthropologists worldwide has documented a wide range of cultural meanings and enactments of fatal and nonfatal suicidal behaviour (e.g. Broz & Münster, 2015; Chua, 2014; Pearson, Phillips, He, & Ji, 2002; Widger, 2015). In Sri Lanka, the everyday construal of suicide-like acts is that they are propelled by acute interpersonal conflicts.…”

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“…The tension between societal expectations regarding education and employment and the control of women’s presence in public often results in familial strife (de Silva, 2005). Fraught kinship relations, in turn, are implicated in most suicide-like acts amongst girls and young women in Sri Lanka (Senadheera, Marecek, Hewage, & Wijayasiri, 2010; Widger, 2015). 1…”

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“…Our goal was to understand the interpersonal dynamics of girls’ lives, especially their intimate relations with parents and kin. Relational conflicts among family members are very often the precipitating circumstance for suicide-like acts (Konradsen, van der Hoek, & Peiris, 2006; Marecek & Senadheera, 2012; Sørensen, 1996; Widger, 2012, 2015).…”

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Embodied shame and gendered demeanours in young women in Sri Lanka

Abeyasekera

Marecek

2019

Feminism & Psychology

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In South Asia, shame is valued as a virtue and a means of social control, particularly for women. For Sri Lankan women, shame ( læjja-baya) denotes modesty, purity, innocence, and self-effacement. For unmarried girls, sexual improprieties—rumoured or real—threaten loss of respectability and jeopardise a girl’s marriageability and her family’s honour. We investigated the dynamics of shame and norms of propriety in adolescent girls’ lives by re-analysing a subset of interviews of daughters and mothers (N = 24 pairs) collected in a prior study of nonfatal suicidal acts. Many such acts took place after girls were accused of violating norms of propriety. Other such acts served to ‘blame and shame’ wrongdoers. Girls and their mothers reported further that public knowledge of a suicide-like act sullied a girl’s reputation because onlookers ascribed sexualised meanings to it. We point out the incommensurability between parents’ goals and aspirations for their daughters’ educational and occupation attainments and the rigid demands for respectable comportment to which they must conform.

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Embodied shame and gendered demeanours in young women in Sri Lanka

Abeyasekera

Marecek

2019

Feminism & Psychology

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“…In Sri Lanka, a large number of individuals migrate overseas for temporary work (2–3 years) in low skilled employment. Suicidal behaviour has been linked in previous qualitative work to individuals in these households [15, 22]. This study provides strong evidence that individuals in these households are vulnerable, but we estimate the population attributable risk for this factor is only 5%.…”

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Socioeconomic position and suicidal behaviour in rural Sri Lanka: a prospective cohort study of 168,000+ people

Knipe

Gunnell

Pieris

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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with an increased risk of suicidal behaviour in high income countries, but this association is not established in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Methods We investigated the association of SEP with suicidal behaviour in a prospective cohort study of 168,771 Sri Lankans followed up for episodes of attempted suicide and suicide. SEP data were collected at baseline at the household and individual level at the start of the follow-up period. We used multilevel Poisson regression models to investigate the association of SEP at community, household and individual levels with attempted suicide/suicide. Results Lower levels of asset ownership [IRR (95% CI) suicide 1.74 (0.92, 3.28); attempted suicide 1.67 (1.40, 2.00)] and education [suicide 3.16 (1.06, 9.45); attempted suicide 2.51 (1.70, 3.72)] were associated with an increased risk of suicidal behaviour. The association of these measures of SEP and attempted suicide was stronger in men than women. Individuals living in deprived areas [1.42 (1.16, 1.73)] and in households with a young female head of household [1.41 (1.04, 1.93)] or a temporary foreign migrant [1.47 (1.28, 1.68)] had an elevated risk of attempted suicide. Farmers and daily wage labourers had nearly a doubling in risk of attempted suicide compared to other occupations. Conclusions Improved employment opportunities, welfare and mental health support services, as well as problem-solving skills development, may help support individuals with poorer education, farmers, daily wage labourers, individuals in young female-headed households and temporary foreign migrant households. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s00127-019-01672-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The marginally significant FASTA search results trapped some Cytochrome B protein sequences, which were found to be statistically significant matches with TMATCH, which posses an interesting and significant disconnect between the TMATCH and FASTA results. The Cytochrome B protein is an integral membrane protein with 8 or 9 transmembrane alpha helices intercalated together (Esposti 1993, Widger 1984. The G protein coupled receptor protein is an integral membrane protein with 7 transmembrane alpha helices intercalated together (Atwood 1994, Palczewski 2000.…”

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Improving protein alignment algorithms using amino-acid hydrophobicities - Applications of TMATCH, A new algorithms

2020

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MotivationSequence database search and matching algorithms are an important tool when trying to understand the structure (and so the function) of proteins.Proteins with similar structure and function often have very similar primary structure. There are however many cases where proteins with similar structure have very different primary structures. Substitution matrices (PAM, BLOSUM, Gonnett) can be used to identify proteins of similar structure, but they fail when the sequence similarity falls below about 25%. ResultsWe have described a new algorithm for examining the the primary structure of proteins against a database of known proteins with a new hydrophobicity index. In this paper, we examine the ability of TMATCH to identify proteins of similar structure using sequence matching with the hydrophobicity index. We compare results from TMATCH with those obtained using FASTA and PSI-BLAST.We show that by using similarity patterns spread across the entire length of two proteins we get a more robust indicator of remote relatedness than relying upon high similarity scoring pair regions.

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Suicide in Sri Lanka

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Embodied shame and gendered demeanours in young women in Sri Lanka

Embodied shame and gendered demeanours in young women in Sri Lanka

Socioeconomic position and suicidal behaviour in rural Sri Lanka: a prospective cohort study of 168,000+ people

Improving protein alignment algorithms using amino-acid hydrophobicities - Applications of TMATCH, A new algorithms

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