Cultivating Resilience: An Agrarian Approach to Suicide Prevention for Rural Minnesota Farmers is a multi-level public health resilience-building intervention aimed at providing information and resources to all levels of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Ecological Model in rural Minnesota farmers and farming communities who are at risk of suicide. (CDC, 2022)
Those that work in agriculture are at a 3.5 times increased risk of suicide (Reed, 2020) and suicide amongst farmers grew from 40% from 2000 to 2020. (Peterson, 2020) Proposed rational for these notable increases can be linked to higher job-related stress, lower resources in rural communities and greater access to firearms and chemicals, which are the most reported means of suicide. (CDC, 2022)
The targeted population for this intervention is rural Minnesota Farmers, who are predominantly Caucasian, Christian males between the ages of 35-75. This population lives in rural Minnesota counties and has a varying income ranging from low in those who provide the manual labor for agriculture to high income for those who own land, own equipment and/or run farming operations. (Sullivan and Peterson, 2015)
The interventions include an Infographic providing suicide prevention resources specifically for rural Minnesota farmers that is targeting both the individual as well as the relationship/interpersonal level of the SEM. (CDC, 2022) Additional a public service announcement is utilized that will be broadcasted and posted by agricultural-specific multimedia networks that are specific to Minnesota. At the societal level, this intervention seeks funding and additional resources to support the dissemination of the invention throughout Minnesota and potentially throughout the nation.
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