@article{ref1,
title="Quantifying suicide contagion at population scale",
journal="Science advances",
year="2024",
author="Shaman, Jeffrey and Kandula, Sasikiran and Pei, Sen and Galanti, Marta and Olfson, Mark and Gould, Madelyn and Keyes, Katherine",
volume="10",
number="31",
pages="eadq4074-eadq4074",
abstract="The spread of suicidal behavior among individuals is often described as a contagion; however, rigorous modeling of suicide as a dynamic, contagious process is minimal. Here, we develop and validate a model-inference system depicting suicide ideation and death and use it to quantify the contagion processes in the US associated with two prominent celebrity suicide events: Robin Williams during 2014 and Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, which occurred 3 days apart during 2018. We show that both events produced large transient increases of suicide contagion contact rates, i.e., the spread of suicidal thought and behavior, and a period of elevated suicidal ideation in the general population. Our modeling approach provides a framework for quantifying suicidal contagion and better understanding, preventing, and containing its spread.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2375-2548",
doi="10.1126/sciadv.adq4074",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq4074"
}