@article{ref1,
title="First do no harm: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for the impact of individual suicidality on the use of online health forums and support groups",
journal="Computers in human behavior",
year="2016",
author="Scherr, S. and Reinemann, C.",
volume="61",
number="",
pages="80-88",
abstract="Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, especially among the young. This study aims to disentangle the presumed causality between the use of online health forums or support groups and suicidality using a representative telephone survey and a two-wave online panel survey containing the same question wording. Cross-sectional data show positive correlations between suicidality and online health forum use, but not limited to the younger. Using longitudinal panel data and autoregressive models, a positive cross-lagged effect of suicidality on internet-based health forum use one month later was revealed. Despite the wide-spread notion that online health forums can increase suicidality the present study provides evidence for the preventive potential of accessible and helpful information online. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0747-5632",
doi="10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.009"
}