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FARMER WELLBEING STUDY
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In 2021 and 2022, GFA partnered with The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center and students in Mercer University School of Medicine’s Rural Health Sciences Ph.D. program to study the mental well-being, stressors, and coping mechanisms for individuals in farm occupations.
The statewide survey confirmed most of the results of the pilot study, but showed that suicidal ideation was even more common than it was in the pilot study. One of the most astounding and worrisome results were that more than 60% of first-generation farmers had thought about dying by suicide in the past year, with almost 10% thinking about this daily.
Read the reports:
Click Here to Read Full Pilot Report
Click Here to Read Final Statewide Report
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