Citation

Arendt F, Romer D. Br. J. Psychiatry 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Research Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

10.1192/bjp.2019.197

PMID

31679540

Abstract

Recent research estimated that an additional 195 suicides among 10- to 17-year-old youths occurred following the release of the television series 13 Reasons Why. There is an underrecognised aspect in this line of research that this effect represents a net effect based on different possible underlying patterns (e.g. +195/-0 or +395/-200).

Language: en

Keywords

13 Reasons Why; Suicide; Werther effect; media; net effect