@article{ref1,
title="Suicidal ideation during the CoViD-19 pandemic: investigating mental health, CoViD-19 health beliefs, and news media consumption in the United States population in the year 2020",
journal="OMEGA - Journal of death and dying",
year="2021",
author="Lueck, Jennifer A. and Callaghan, Timothy and Scherr, Sebastian",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This study examines the role of general news media consumption during COVID-19 in aggravating mental health and suicide risk in the US population. In a sample of U.S. adults (N = 5,010), we investigated how mental health, COVID-19 health beliefs, and general news consumption influenced the odds of suicidal ideation using hierarchical logistic regression models. Both worsening mental health overall and specifically in regard to COVID-19 increased suicidal ideation. Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection did not increase suicidal ideation, yet higher levels of COVID-19 self-efficacy reduced suicidal ideation. Overall news consumption did not affect suicidal ideation, but media-specific post-hoc analyses revealed that TV news watching decreased suicidal ideation as much as high levels of COVID-19 self-efficacy decreased suicidal ideation. Furthermore, online news consumption increased suicidal ideation as much as worsening mental health overall increased suicidal ideation. Further implications are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0030-2228",
doi="10.1177/00302228211062361",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00302228211062361"
}