Exploring Parents' Immediate Reactions to Digital Suicide Risk Alerts: Descriptive Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Youth suicide is a critical public health crisis. Subscription-based parental digital monitoring apps have emerged to monitor youths' web-based activities and promptly alert parents in case of detected suicide risk. Parents' responses to digital suicide risk alerts could significantly influence their children's immediate and long-term well-being. However, parent experiences receiving these alerts and their impact on parent-child and co-parent relationships remain unclear.

Objective

This study aimed to examine parental perceptions of digital suicide risk alerts, as well as characterize parents' emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to alert receipts, and evaluate the impact on their relationships with their child and co-parent.

Methods

Parents subsc

SUBMITTER: Burke TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12629623 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature