ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2024
Social network structure as a suicide prevention target.
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- Changes in Mental Health Networks Among High-Risk Suicide Groups in Korea Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Rationale for Accreditation Criteria for the MATES in Construction Workplace Suicide Prevention Program.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2026Article
- Bidirectional associations between negative relationship events and suicidal ideation: an EMA study of stress exposure and generation.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2026Article
- Suicidal Distress and Daily Well-Being: A New Model of Social Hysteresis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Exploring factors contributing to adolescent suicide using psychological autopsy - A scoping review.PloS one · 2026Article
- Innovating military suicide prevention: learnings from the Australian Defence SafeSide Project.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Socio-Spatial Patterns of Suicide Mortality in the United States.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- A network frame offers a promising transdisciplinary tool for understanding complex health and health care system problems like suicide.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Social network structure as a biopsychosocial suicide prevention target for young people at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Schizophrenia research · 2024Review
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Abstract
purposeThe structure of relationships in a social network affects the suicide risk of the people embedded within it. Although current interventions often modify the social perceptions (e.g., perceived support and sense of belonging) for people at elevated risk, few seek to directly modify the structure of their surrounding social networks. We show social network structure is a worthwhile intervention target in its own right.
methodsA simple model illustrates the potential of interventions to modify social structure. The effect of these basic structural interventions on suicide risk is simulated and evaluated. Its results are briefly compared to emerging empirical findings for real network interventions.
resultsEven an intentionally simplified intervention on social network structure (i.e., random addition of social connections) is likely to be both effective and safe. Specifically, this illustrative intervention had a high probability of reducing the overall suicide risk, without increasing the risk of those who were healthy at baseline. It also frequently resolved stable, high-risk clusters of people at elevated risk. These illustrative results are generally consistent with emerging evidence from real social network interventions for suicide.
conclusionSocial network structure is a neglected, but valuable intervention target for suicide prevention.
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