Association of Online Risk Factors With Subsequent Youth Suicide-Related Behaviors in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The association between online activities and youth suicide is an important issue for parents, clinicians, and policy makers. However, most information exploring potential associations is drawn from survey data and mainly focuses on risk related to overall screen time.

Objective

To evaluate the association between a variety of online risk factors and youth suicide-related behavior using real-world online activity data.

Design, setting, and participants

A matched case-control study was conducted from July 27, 2019, to May 26, 2020, with the sample drawn from more than 2600 US schools participating in an online safety monitoring program via the Bark online safety tool. For 227 youths having a severe suicide/self-harm alert requiring notification of school adm

SUBMITTER: Sumner SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8453319 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature