@article{ref1,
title="Do individuals with substance use disorders find information for crisis intervention and suicide prevention resources on the Internet?",
journal="Nervenarzt",
year="2011",
author="Schneider, Birke and Fritze, J. and Georgi, Klaus and Grebner, K.",
volume="82",
number="7",
pages="859-865",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Suicidality is an important issue for substance-dependent people. The few studies about Internet searches have provided ambiguous results regarding help and support using suicide-related terms. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Five popular search engines and several substance use- and suicide-related German search terms were used; the search results were classified as being pro-suicide, anti-suicide, suicide-neutral, websites not associated with suicide or &quot;page could not be loaded&quot;. RESULTS: The majority of identified websites was not associated with suicide at all, whereas websites offering help and support were less frequent. Using suicide-associated search terms (such as &quot;Selbsttötung&quot;) almost half of all web pages were help sites. Websites with instructions for committing suicide were very rarely found. CONCLUSIONS: In view of the difficulties for substance abusers to get immediate and adequate information about help and support in a suicidal crisis via the Internet, it is urgently necessary to extend fast available help sites on the Internet.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0028-2804",
doi="10.1007/s00115-010-2974-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00115-010-2974-z"
}