Discrimination key factor in Traveller suicides, study finds

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  1. Paywalled, but here’s how the study was done and key findings.

    >Drawing on 112 responses to an online survey, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and five in-depth focus groups with 19 Travellers, researchers found around 85 per cent of respondents “knew someone with depression or who ‘suffers with their nerves’.

    >While drugs, alcohol, depression, poverty and financial pressures were identified as key causes of suicide, “there was consistent reference to daily experiences of discrimination that have an impact on mental health”.

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