ArticleCurrent opinion in psychiatry2019
Social media, internet use and suicide attempts in adolescents.
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90 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: International Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and Attempt in Youth.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Social media use and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical psychology review · 2021Pooled it
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- Adolescents Admitted for Suicide Attempts to a Tertiary Pediatric Hospital in Romania: An Eleven-Year Retrospective Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Iterative Large Language Model-Guided Sampling and Expert-Annotated Benchmark Corpus for Harmful Suicide Content Detection: Development and Validation Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
- Association between self-esteem and suicide risk in adolescents from five schools in northern Peru: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a comprehensive prevention-focused intervention package for problematic digital technology use among youth: a multi-site study protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Adolescent health lifestyles and suicidality: Emerging risks in a latent class analysis.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Position paper on symbiotic intelligence in healthcare: Can AI help us better understand suicidal behavior and prevent suicide?Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- 'Remember, You Are Not Alone': A Qualitative Internet-Mediated Study of Anxiety Among Adolescents on Reddit.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
- The impact of digital stress on suicide ideation among medical postgraduates: the chain mediating role of emotion regulation and meaning in life.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of health promotion intervention on knowledge regarding psychological dependence on the internet and social media among adolescents in South India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Longitudinal panel networks of risk and protective factors for early adolescent suicidality in the ABCD sample.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewSuicide is the second leading cause of death in youth aged 10-24 years old globally, but detecting those at risk is challenging. Novel preventive strategies with wide influence across populations are required. Interest in the potential for both detrimental and supportive influences of social media/internet use on suicidal behaviour has been growing; however, the relationship remains unclear. RECENT
findingsA systematic search of articles from database inception up to 25 January 2019 across five databases: Medline, PsycINFO, EMBASE, HMIC and CINAHL revealed nine independent studies investigating social media/internet use and suicide attempts in young people less than 19 years old (n = 346 416). An independent direct association was found between heavy social media/internet use and increased suicide attempts in seven studies (adjusted ORs ranged from 1.03 to 5.10), although adjusting for cyberbullying victimization and sleep disturbance reduced the strength of this association. Two studies found that some social media/internet use, versus no use, may be associated with fewer suicide attempts. There were no studies investigating the relationship between social media/internet use and completed suicide. SUMMARY: There is an independent association between problematic use of social media/internet and suicide attempts in young people. However, the direction of causality, if any, remains unclear. Further evaluation through longitudinal studies is needed.
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