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Citation

Robinson J, Rodrigues M, Fisher S, Bailey E, Herrman H. Shanghai Arch. Psychiatry 2015; 27(1): 27-35.

Affiliation

Orygen, The National Center of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Shanghai Mental Health Center)

DOI

10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.214133

PMID

25852253

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Suicide is a leading cause of death, particularly among young adults. The rapid growth of social media and its heavy use by young adults presents new challenges and opportunities for suicide prevention. Social media sites are commonly used for communicating about suicide-related behavior with others, which raises the possibility of using social media to help prevent suicide. However, the use of social media varies widely between different suicide prevention advocates. The role this type of intervention should play in a community's overall suicide prevention strategy remains a matter of debate.

AIM:

Explore the ways in which stakeholders use social media for suicide prevention and assess their views about the potential utility of social media as a suicide prevention tool.

METHODS:

A 12-week stakeholder consultation that involved the online administration and completion of surveys by 10 individuals who conduct research about suicide and social media, 13 organizations that use social media for suicide prevention purposes, and 64 users of social media.
RESULTS:

Social media was seen as a useful means of delivering a range of suicide prevention activities. Respondents reported that the key benefits of social media were the opportunity to obtain emotional support from others, to express one's feelings, to talk to others with similar problems, and to provide help to others. The social media site believed to hold most potential for delivering suicide prevention activities was Facebook. There were concerns about potential risks of social media, but respondents felt the potential benefits outweighed the risks.

CONCLUSIONS:

Social media was recognized by different types of stakeholders as holding potential for delivering suicide prevention activities. More research is required to establish the efficacy and safety of potential social media-based interventions and ethical standards and protocols to ensure that such interventions are delivered safely need to be developed and implemented.

KEYWORDS:

Australia; internet-based survey; social media; suicide; suicide prevention organizations


Language: en

Vernacular Abstract

背景:

自杀是死亡的一个主要原因,在年轻人中尤为如此。社交媒体快速增长,年轻人热衷于此,自杀预防面临着新的挑战和机遇。人们常常在社交媒体网站上与他人交流关于自杀相关的行为,因而就有可能利用社交媒体来预防自杀。然而,不同的自杀预防倡导者对社交媒体的利用也是不尽相同的。这种干预方式在社区整体自杀预防战略中发挥的作用仍然是一个有争议的问题。.

目标:

探讨相关人员使用社交媒体来预防自杀的方式,并且评估他们如何看待社交媒体作为预防自杀工具的潜在作用。.

方法:

这是一项为期12周的相关人员的调查。一共有10位研究自杀和社交媒体的受访者、13个用社交媒体来预防自杀的受访组织和64位社交媒体的用户参与并完成了在线调查。.

结果:

人们认为社交媒体能够有效提供一系列自杀预防活动。受访者表示社交媒体的主要好处是有机会获得别人的情感支持、表达自己的感情、跟其他人讨论类似的问题,并为别人提供帮助。Facebook被认为是最具有潜力提供自杀预防活动的社交媒体网站。受访者也担忧社交媒体的潜在风险,但他们认为潜在利益大于风险。.

结论:

不同方面的相关人员者认为社交媒体具有提供自杀预防活动的潜力。需要进行更多的研究以明确社交媒体为基础的干预的有效性和安全性,还需要制定并落实相关的道德标准和规章制度,以确保这样的干预是安全的。.

中文全文:

本文全文中文版从2015年4月8日起在http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.214133可供免费阅览下载.

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