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| Title |
Offline Versus Online Suicide‐Related Help Seeking: Changing Domains, Changing Paradigms
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| Published in |
In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1002/jclp.22282 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Amy-Lee Seward, Keith M Harris |
| Abstract |
Suicidal individuals are among the most reluctant help-seekers, which limits opportunities for treating and preventing unnecessary suffering and self-inflicted deaths. This study aimed to assist outreach, prevention, and treatment efforts by elucidating relationships between suicidality and both online and offline help seeking. An anonymous online survey provided data on 713 participants, aged 18-71 years. Measures included an expanded General Help-Seeking Questionnaire and the Suicidal Affect-Behavior-Cognition Scale. General linear modeling results showed that, as predicted, face-to-face help-seeking willingness decreased as risk level increased. However, for emerging adults help-seeking likelihood increased with informal online sources as risk increased, while other online help-seeking attitudes differed little by risk level. Linear regression modeling determined that, for suicidal individuals, willingness to seek help from online mental health professionals and online professional support sites was strongly related (ps < .001). Help seeking from social networking sites and anonymous online forums was also interrelated, but more complex, demonstrating the importance of age and social support factors (ps < .001). These findings show that the Internet has altered the suicide-related help-seeking paradigm. Online help seeking for suicidality was not more popular than face-to-face help seeking, even for emerging adults. However, treatment and prevention professionals have good reasons to increase their online efforts, because that is where some of the highest risk individuals are going for help with their most severe personal problems. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 29% |
| Japan | 2 | 14% |
| Spain | 1 | 7% |
| Ireland | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 6 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 79% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 14% |
| Scientists | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 161 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 158 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 12% |
| Researcher | 19 | 12% |
| Other | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 18 | 11% |
| Unknown | 50 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 46 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 18 | 11% |
| Unknown | 58 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 March 2020.
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#2,791,226
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Outputs from In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice
#293
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#42,960
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Outputs of similar age from In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice
#8
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