Leveraging data science to enhance suicide prevention research: a literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this research is to identify how data science is applied in suicide prevention literature, describe the current landscape of this literature and highlight areas where data science may be useful for future injury prevention research.

Design

We conducted a literature review of injury prevention and data science in April 2020 and January 2021 in three databases.

Methods

For the included 99 articles, we extracted the following: (1) author(s) and year; (2) title; (3) study approach (4) reason for applying data science method; (5) data science method type; (6) study description; (7) data source and (8) focus on a disproportionately affected population.

Results

Results showed the literature on data science and suicide more than doubled from 20

SUBMITTER: Wulz AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161307 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature