Developing Social Media-Based Suicide Prevention Messages in Partnership With Young People: Exploratory Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social media is increasingly being used by young people for health-related issues, including communicating about suicide. Due to the concerns about causing distress or inducing suicidal thoughts or behaviors, to date young people neither have been engaged in the development of social media-based suicide prevention interventions nor have interventions focused on educating young people about safe ways to communicate about suicide online. Given the potential that social media holds to deliver messages to vast numbers of people across space and time and the fact that young people often prefer to seek help from their friends and peers, safely educating and engaging young people to develop suicide prevention messages that can be delivered via social media is an obvious next st

SUBMITTER: Robinson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647460 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature