Suicide contagion, gender, and suicide attempts among adolescents

Yıldız, Muhammed; Orak, Uğur; Walker, Mark; Solakoglu, Ozgur

doi:10.1080/07481187.2018.1478914

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“…Students in distress who lack valuable sources of help-related information can be attracted to depressive peers or suicidal-oriented online media for temporary emotional sympathy or for whatever personal reasons. However, the harmful influence can be literally deadly, defined as suicide contagion [45,46]. In fact, group suicides are present among adolescents and performed in many different forms within Japanese society [47].…”

Section: Perceived Information Inaccessibility: the Elusive Helping Hmentioning

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Alice in Suicideland: Exploring the Suicidal Ideation Mechanism through the Sense of Connectedness and Help-Seeking Behaviors

Nguyen¹,

Le²,

Nguyen³

et al. 2021

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On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, recent data show. Yet, extant studies have largely focused on the risk factors for suicidal behaviors, not so much on the thought process and the interactions of factors leading up to a suicide attempt. To understand how suicide thoughts arise and persist inside one’s mind, and look for actionable solutions to reduce the risk of suicidal ideation in young adults, the most at-risk group of deaths by suicide. A multifiltering information mechanism called Mindsponge serves as the theoretical basis. Bayesian analysis with the Hamiltonian MCMC technique (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) was run on a dataset of multinational students (N = 268) in an international university in Japan. Item 9 in the PHQ-9 was used to survey suicidal ideation in students. The associations among four main variables, namely (i) suicidal ideation, (ii) help-seeking willingness (informal and formal sources), (iii) social connectedness, and (iv) being an international student, were tested in four models. Social connectedness is negatively associated with suicidal ideation (μ_(ToSC_Suicide) = -0.13 and σ_(ToSC_Suicide) = 0.02), but when the interaction with international students is added, the social connectedness’s effect on suicidal ideation becomes less impactful (μ_(ToSC*Inter_Dom_Suicide) = 0.01 and σ_(ToSC*Inter_Dom_Suicide) = 0.01). Social connectedness on help-seeking behavior among international students is also negative (μ_(ToSC*Inter_Dom_InformalHelp) = -0.01 and σ_(ToSC*Inter_Dom_InformalHelp) = 0.01). Meanwhile, informal help is negatively associated with suicide (μ_(InformalHelp_Suicide) = -0.51 and σ_(InformalHelp_Suicide) = 0.11) whereas formal help is positive (μ_(FormalHelp_Suicide) = 0.08 and σ_(FormalHelp_Suicide) = 0.10). The findings support our assumption on three fundamental conditions for preventing suicidal thoughts: (i) a high degree of belongingness, (ii) accessibility to help-related information, and (iii) healthy perceived cultural responses towards mental health. The implications are clear: to effectively tackle suicidal ideation among students, and broadly in other populations, requires a set of systematically coordinated programs.

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Section: Perceived Information Inaccessibility: the Elusive Helping Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alice in Suicideland: Exploring the Suicidal Ideation Mechanism through the Sense of Connectedness and Help-Seeking Behaviors

Nguyen¹,

Le²,

Nguyen³

et al. 2021

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“…Students in distress who lack valuable sources of help-related information can be attracted to depressive peers or suicidal-oriented online media for temporary emotional sympathy or for whatever personal reasons. However, the harmful influence can be literally deadly, defined as suicide contagion (44,45). In fact, group suicides are present among adolescents and performed in many different forms within Japanese society (46).…”

Section: Information Inaccessibility: the Elusive Helping Handsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alice in Suicideland: Exploring the Suicidal Ideation Mechanism Through Social Connectedness and Help-Seeking Behaviors

Nguyen

et al. 2021

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“…The ethical dilemma encountered by Levinson et al derives from the tension between the need to preserve participant anonymity, and to react to unexpected survey data highlighting an unanticipated health risk (Yildiz et al 2019). While responding to such considerations will not always generate conflict, in this case certain factors in the recruitment and consent process established a context in which the dilemma encountered was unfortunate but almost inevitable.…”

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From Subject to Fellow Researcher: Reconceptualising Research Relationships to Safeguard Potentially Vulnerable Survey Participants

West-Oram

Brooks

Jenkins

2020

The American Journal of Bioethics

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Suicide contagion, gender, and suicide attempts among adolescents

Cited by 24 publications

References 38 publications

Alice in Suicideland: Exploring the Suicidal Ideation Mechanism through the Sense of Connectedness and Help-Seeking Behaviors

Alice in Suicideland: Exploring the Suicidal Ideation Mechanism through the Sense of Connectedness and Help-Seeking Behaviors

Alice in Suicideland: Exploring the Suicidal Ideation Mechanism Through Social Connectedness and Help-Seeking Behaviors

From Subject to Fellow Researcher: Reconceptualising Research Relationships to Safeguard Potentially Vulnerable Survey Participants

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