ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2021
Associations Between Social Media and Suicidal Behaviors During a Youth Suicide Cluster in Ohio.
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- Associations between internet addiction and suicidal ideation in depressed adolescents: the mediating effect of insomnia as well as sex differences.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Research, practice, and data informed investigations of child and youth suicide: A science to service and service to science approach.Journal of safety research · 2024Article
- Communication dynamics and media interactions of young adults who have attempted suicide: a qualitative thematic analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Social Media and Youth Mental Health.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Simulation Models for Suicide Prevention: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art.Computers (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Social media use of adolescents who died by suicide: lessons from a psychological autopsy study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Screen time and suicidal behaviors among U.S. children 9-11 years old: A prospective cohort study.Preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Affiliation to a Social Group as a Preventive Factor in Suicidal Behaviors in Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Mental Health and Social Media Use of Young Australians during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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purposeYouth suicide clusters may be exacerbated by suicide contagion-the spread of suicidal behaviors. Factors promoting suicide contagion are poorly understood, particularly in the advent of social media. Using cross-sectional data from an ongoing youth suicide cluster in Ohio, this study examines associations between suicide cluster-related social media and suicidal behaviors.
methodsWe surveyed 7th- to 12th-grade students in northeastern Ohio during a 2017-2018 suicide cluster to assess the prevalence of suicidal ideation (SI), suicide attempts (SAs), and associations with potential contagion-promoting factors such as suicide cluster-related social media, vigils, memorials, news articles, and watching the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why before or during the cluster. Generalized estimating equations examined associations between potential contagion-promoting factors and SI/SA, adjusting for nonmodifiable risk factors. Subgroup analyses examined whether associations between cluster-related factors and SI/SA during the cluster varied by previous history of SI/SA.
resultsAmong participating students, 9.0% (876/9,733) reported SI and 4.9% attempted suicide (481/9,733) during the suicide cluster. Among students who posted suicide cluster-related content to social media, 22.9% (267/1,167) reported SI and 15.0% (175/1,167) attempted suicide during the suicide cluster. Posting suicide cluster-related content was associated with both SI (adjusted odds ratio 1.7, 95% confidence interval 1.4-2.0) and SA during the cluster (adjusted odds ratio 1.7, 95% confidence interval 1.2-2.5). In subgroup analyses, seeing suicide cluster-related posts was uniquely associated with increased odds of SI and SA during the cluster among students with no previous history of SI/SA.
conclusionsExposure to suicide cluster-related social media is associated with both SI and SA during a suicide cluster. Suicide interventions could benefit from efforts to mitigate potential negative effects of social media and promote prevention messages.
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