#Selfharm on #Instagram: Examining User Awareness and Use of Instagram’s Self-harm Reporting Tool

Record, Rachael A.; Straub, Kendra; Stump, Nicholas

doi:10.1080/10410236.2019.1598738

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“…The first author (JP) completed the initial search and carried out the first stage of the screening process for relevance, based on title and abstract. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria 10 articles remained [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. Authors (JP, GJ, SM) independently reviewed the full articles and examined their reference lists.…”

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“…All reviewed studies were high quality articles (see S1 Table for the detailed quality appraisal scores). Nine articles scored ten out of ten in overall quality [34][35][36][37][38][40][41][42][43], and Carlyle [39] scored nine out of ten. All reported adequate aims, good methodology, research design, sample, rigorous analysis, and clear and adequate findings, bringing valuable research contribution to the field.…”

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“…Based on first author, articles originated from US/UK (n = 5), Germany or Austria (n = 4), and Belgium (n = 1). Eight studies focused on Instagram only [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41], while two examined self-harm across Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr [42,43].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Seven of the ten studies retrieved and described self-harm or suicide related content on Instagram [34,36,37,39,40,42,43]. One study assessed Instagram users' awareness and use of the Instagram reporting tool for self-harm content [41]. Arendt [35] measured the relationship between exposure to self-harm content and users' self-harm behaviours and suicidality offline, and Brown [38] explored whether online users' acute suicidality could be predicted from their Instagram activity and language used in their posts captions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…All reported adequate aims, good methodology, research design, sample, rigorous analysis, and clear and adequate findings, bringing valuable research contribution to the field. All openly acknowledged some limitations, typically limits to extrapolate beyond their purposive samples [34][35][36][37][38][40][41][42][43] or lack of Instagram users' information [35,42,43]. In terms of ethical considerations, most studies report having IRB ethical approval [34,35,37,38,[40][41][42][43] or having followed ethical guidelines approved by the ethics committee of the Association of Internet Researchers (https://aoir.org/ethics/) [36].…”

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Suicide and self-harm content on Instagram: A systematic scoping review

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Given concerns about suicide or self-harm content on Instagram, we conducted a systematic scoping review of peer-reviewed English language primary studies published between 2010-2019. Only ten studies had been published. Looking into purposive samples of Instagram posts tagged with self-harm related hashtags, studies report finding self-harm or suicide content in between 9-66% of their studied posts. Studies assessing Instagram's efforts to tackle such content found they had not been very effective. Despite heterogeneity in study aims, use of terminology, samples, methods of analysis, and study outcomes, we aggregated and distinguished 'content studies' and 'user studies'. Most studies showed concern for self-harm risk, but only one examined the relationship between self-harm posts and actual self-harm behaviours offline. It found such content had negative emotional effects on some users and reported preliminary evidence of potential harmful effects in relation to self-harm related behaviours offline, although causal effects cannot be claimed. At the same time, some benefits for those who engage with self-harm content online have been suggested. More research directly interviewing Instagram users to understand this phenomenon from their perspective is required. Finally, some ethical issues are discussed.

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