scholarly journals How Search Engines Handle Suicide Queries

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Borge ◽  
Victoria Cosgrove ◽  
Elena Cryst ◽  
Shelby Grossman ◽  
Shelby Perkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Contagion Effect ◽  
Harmful Content ◽  
Internet Suicide

The suicide contagion effect posits that exposure to suicide- related content increases the likelihood of an individual engaging in suicidal behavior. Internet suicide-related queries correlate with suicide prevalence. However, suicide-related searches also lead people to access help resources. This article systematically evaluates the results returned from both general suicide terms and terms related to specific suicide means across three popular search engines—Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo— in both English and Spanish. We find that Bing and DuckDuckGo surface harmful content more often than Google. We assess whether search engines show suicide prevention hotline information, and find that 53% of English queries have this information, compared to 13% of Spanish queries. Looking across platforms, 55% of Google queries include hotline information, compared to 35% for Bing and 10% for DuckDuckGo. Specific suicide means queries are 20% more likely to surface harmful results on Bing and DuckDuckGo compared to general suicide term queries, with no difference on Google.

Parents of Suicidal College Students: What Deans, Judges and Legislators Should Know About Campus Research Findings

NASPA Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R Baker
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Student Affairs Officers ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Prevention Plan

When suicidal behavior is reported, student affairs officers on many campuses notify parents as one component of a multifaceted campus suicide prevention plan. In response to proposals to mandate parent notification, the author argues that practical considerations warrant against expanding state laws to require notification following campus suicide attempts. The recent experience with parent notice at one university confirms the work of earlier researchers who concluded that parents rarely withdraw suicidal students from enrollment. Although a policy of sending the letters may deter further episodes of selfdestructive behavior, parents once alerted to the situation are not likely to intervene in a manner that will reduce significantly the risk of suicide.

scholarly journals Influential Path of Social Risk Factors toward Suicidal Behavior—Evidence from Chinese Sina Weibo Users 2013–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2604
Author(s):  
Yujin Han ◽  
He Li ◽  
Yunyu Xiao ◽  
Ang Li ◽  
Tingshao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Path Analysis Model

(1) Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine suicidal risk factors, the relationship and the underlying mechanism between social variables and suicidal behavior. We hope to provide empirical support for the future suicide prevention of social media users at the social level. (2) Methods: The path analysis model with psychache as the mediate variable was constructed to analyze the relationship between suicidal behavior and selected social macro variables. The data for our research was taken from the Chinese Suicide Dictionary, Moral Foundation Dictionary, Cultural Value Dictionary and National Bureau of Statistics. (3) Results: The path analysis model was an adequate representation of the data. With the mediator psychache, higher authority vice, individualism, and disposable income of residents significantly predicted less suicidal behavior. Purity vice, collectivism, and proportion of the primary industry had positive significant effect on suicidal behavior via the mediator psychache. The coefficients of harm vice, fairness vice, ingroup vice, public transport and car for every 10,000 people, urban population density, gross domestic product (GDP), urban registered unemployment rate, and crude divorce rate were not significant. Furthermore, we applied the model to three major economic development belts in China. The model’s result meant different economic zones had no influence on the model designed in our study. (4) Conclusions: Our evidence informs population-based suicide prevention policymakers that incorporating some social factors like authority vice, individualism, etc. can help prevent suicidal ideation in China.

Restricting Access to Methods of Suicide

Crisis ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (S1) ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Hawton
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Long Term Survivors ◽  
Methods Of Suicide

Abstract. Restriction of access to means for suicidal behavior, especially dangerous methods, is a key element in most national suicide prevention strategies. In this paper the rationale for this is discussed, including the fact that suicidal impulses are often brief, that availability of a method may influence both the occurrence and outcome of a suicidal act, and that if a favored means becomes less available it does not always result in substitution by another method. Examples of evidence for the effectiveness of restricting availability of suicidal methods on subsequent suicidal behavior are presented, plus the supporting findings from studies of long-term survivors of serious suicide attempts in which only a minority have gone on to die in subsequent suicide attempts. Finally, factors likely to determine the effectiveness of modifying access to means for suicide are considered, together with the main elements that need to be addressed in evaluation.

Teaching medical professionals and trainees about adolescent suicide prevention: five key problems

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Sher
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Adolescent Suicide ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Suicidal Patients

Abstract Predicting and preventing suicide represent very difficult challenges for clinicians. The awareness of adolescent suicide as a major social and medical problem has increased over the past years. However, many health care professionals who have frequent contact with adolescents are not sufficiently trained in suicide evaluation techniques and approaches to adolescents with suicidal behavior. Suicide prevention efforts among adolescents are restricted by the fact that there are five key problems related to the evaluation and management of suicidality in adolescents: 1. Many clinicians underestimate the importance of the problem of adolescent suicidal behavior and underestimate its prevalence. 2. There is a misconception that direct questioning of adolescents about suicidality is sufficient to evaluate suicide risk. 3. Another misconception is that adolescents with non-psychiatric illnesses do not need to be evaluated for suicidality. 4. Many clinicians do not know about or underestimate the role of contagion in adolescent suicidal behavior. 5. There is a mistaken belief that adolescent males are at lower suicide risk than adolescent females. Educating medical professionals and trainees about the warning signs and symptoms of adolescent suicide and providing them with tools to recognize, evaluate, and manage suicidal patients represent a promising approach to adolescent suicide prevention.

Are There Unique Features of Suicide in Adults of Different Ages and Developmental Stages?

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Suicide Prevention Programs

Differences between the suicidal behavior of younger adults and the elderly are reviewed, and their implications for suicide prevention efforts examined. Elderly suicides use more lethal methods, are more often diagnosed with affective disorder and organic brain syndrome, and have experienced less recent stress than younger adults. It is concluded that psychiatric treatment of depression and restricting access to lethal methods for suicide are more useful tactics for suicide prevention programs in the elderly, and that crisis counseling from suicide prevention centers and educational programs are more useful in younger adults.

scholarly journals MASS THERAPEUTIC EDUCATION FOR MONITORING SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN COMMUNITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Fadhillah Sofyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Therapeutic Education ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Suicidal Ideas ◽  
The Impact

Background: Suicide is a worrying problem in Indonesia because of increase in case reported. There has been an increase in suicide rates both globally and in Indonesia. The negative stigma, lack of education, and lack of understanding of the role of the community make it difficult to reduce the number of suicides. This study aims to discuss mass therapeutic education for monitoring suicidal behavior in community. Method: Researchers used 15 journals and literature that discuss the impact and vulnerability of distance learning on students' mental health conditions. Conclusion: The role of society in reducing the suicide rate is very much needed. The community can help make early detection of suicide. Society can help prevent suicidal ideas from arising in those around them. The public can provide information to the authorities and give advice for suicide perpetrators to visit a health center. The role of the community can be integrated in a structured and neat system that can make suicide prevention efforts become optimal.

scholarly journals Do Search Engine Helpline Notices Aid in Preventing Suicide? Analysis of Archival Data (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qijin Cheng ◽  
Elad Yom-Tov
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
The United States ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Higher Rank

BACKGROUND Search engines display helpline notices when people query for suicide-related information. OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to examine if these notices and other information displayed in response to suicide-related queries are correlated with subsequent searches for suicide prevention rather than harmful information. METHODS Anonymous suicide-related searches made on Bing and Google in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in a span of 10 months were extracted. Descriptive analyses and regression models were fit to the data to assess the correlation with observed behaviors. RESULTS Display of helpline notices was not associated with an observed change in the likelihood of or future suicide searches (P=.42). No statistically significant differences were observed in the likelihood of people making future suicide queries (both generally and specific types of suicide queries) when comparing search engines in locations that display helpline notices versus ones that do not. Pages with higher rank, being neutral to suicide, and those shown among more antisuicide pages were more likely to be clicked on. Having more antisuicide Web pages displayed was the only factor associated with further searches for suicide prevention information (hazard=1.18, P=.002). CONCLUSIONS Helpline notices are not associated with harm. If they cause positive change in search behavior, it is small. This is possibly because of the variability in intent of users seeking suicide-related information. Nonetheless, helpline notice should be displayed, but more efforts should be made to improve the visibility and ranking of suicide prevention Web pages.

scholarly journals Suicidal behavior: theoretic model and practical implications in cognitive-behavioral therapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.B. Kholmogorova
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
Psychosocial Model ◽  
History Of ◽  
Further Development

The article presents the data on suicide incidence in Russian Federation. The author discusses the necessity of developing prevention programs and carrying out complex team-based specialist work to ensure safe environment at schools. It is noted that prevention and postvention methods should be scientifically grounded. History of development of a special psychotherapeutic cognitive-behavioral protocol for suicide prevention and postvention is presented. The author examines the problem of diathesis (predisposition) to suicidal behavior and formulates the main principles of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy of patients predisposed to suicidal behavior. Key stages of cognitive-behavioral therapy of suicidal behavior, techniques and approaches to working with such clients are described. Various targets that should be taken into account during crisis interventions are discussed. The article presents empirical research data of the effectiveness of cognitive psychotherapy of suicidal behavior and the results of the empirical study of factors of suicidal behavior in students based on multi-factor psychosocial model of affective spectrum disorders. It is emphasized that individual psychotherapy should be combined with other methods of suicide prevention and postvention. Perspectives of further development of methods of working with suicidal behavior are outlined.

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