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Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review

Background: Facebook represents a new dimension for global information sharing. Suicidal behaviours and attempts are increasingly reported on Facebook. This scoping review explores the various aspects of suicidal behaviours associated with Facebook, discussing the challenges and preventive measures....

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Autores principales: Shoib, Sheikh, Chandradasa, Miyuru, Nahidi, Mahsa, Amanda, Tan Weiling, Khan, Sonia, Saeed, Fahimeh, Swed, Sarya, Mazza, Marianna, Di Nicola, Marco, Martinotti, Giovanni, Di Giannantonio, Massimo, Armiya’u, Aishatu Yusha’u, De Berardis, Domenico
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013001
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author Shoib, Sheikh
Chandradasa, Miyuru
Nahidi, Mahsa
Amanda, Tan Weiling
Khan, Sonia
Saeed, Fahimeh
Swed, Sarya
Mazza, Marianna
Di Nicola, Marco
Martinotti, Giovanni
Di Giannantonio, Massimo
Armiya’u, Aishatu Yusha’u
De Berardis, Domenico
author_facet Shoib, Sheikh
Chandradasa, Miyuru
Nahidi, Mahsa
Amanda, Tan Weiling
Khan, Sonia
Saeed, Fahimeh
Swed, Sarya
Mazza, Marianna
Di Nicola, Marco
Martinotti, Giovanni
Di Giannantonio, Massimo
Armiya’u, Aishatu Yusha’u
De Berardis, Domenico
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description Background: Facebook represents a new dimension for global information sharing. Suicidal behaviours and attempts are increasingly reported on Facebook. This scoping review explores the various aspects of suicidal behaviours associated with Facebook, discussing the challenges and preventive measures. Methods: PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus were searched for related articles published in English up to October 2021, using different combinations of “Facebook” and “suicide”. A group of experts comprising consultant psychiatrists screened the records and read the full-text articles to extract relevant data. Twenty-eight articles were chosen as relevant and included in the review under four selected themes. Results: Facebook impacts on suicidal behaviours in different aspects. Announcing suicides through sharing notes or personal information may lead to the prediction of suicide but be harmful to the online audience. Live-streaming videos of suicide is another aspect that questions Facebook’s ability to monitor shared contents that can negatively affect the audience. A positive impact is helping bereaved families to share feelings and seek support online, commemorating the lost person by sharing their photos. Moreover, it can provide real-world details of everyday user behaviours, which help predict suicide risk, primarily through novel machine-learning techniques, and provide early warning and valuable help to prevent it. It can also provide a timeline of the user’s activities and state of mind before suicide. Conclusions: Social media can detect suicidal tendencies, support those seeking help, comfort family and friends with their grief, and provide insights via timelining the users’ activities leading to their suicide. One of the limitations was the lack of quantitative studies evaluating preventative efforts on Facebook. The creators’ commitment and the users’ social responsibility will be required to create a mentally healthy Facebook environment.
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spelling pubmed-96032282022-10-27 Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review Shoib, Sheikh Chandradasa, Miyuru Nahidi, Mahsa Amanda, Tan Weiling Khan, Sonia Saeed, Fahimeh Swed, Sarya Mazza, Marianna Di Nicola, Marco Martinotti, Giovanni Di Giannantonio, Massimo Armiya’u, Aishatu Yusha’u De Berardis, Domenico Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Background: Facebook represents a new dimension for global information sharing. Suicidal behaviours and attempts are increasingly reported on Facebook. This scoping review explores the various aspects of suicidal behaviours associated with Facebook, discussing the challenges and preventive measures. Methods: PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus were searched for related articles published in English up to October 2021, using different combinations of “Facebook” and “suicide”. A group of experts comprising consultant psychiatrists screened the records and read the full-text articles to extract relevant data. Twenty-eight articles were chosen as relevant and included in the review under four selected themes. Results: Facebook impacts on suicidal behaviours in different aspects. Announcing suicides through sharing notes or personal information may lead to the prediction of suicide but be harmful to the online audience. Live-streaming videos of suicide is another aspect that questions Facebook’s ability to monitor shared contents that can negatively affect the audience. A positive impact is helping bereaved families to share feelings and seek support online, commemorating the lost person by sharing their photos. Moreover, it can provide real-world details of everyday user behaviours, which help predict suicide risk, primarily through novel machine-learning techniques, and provide early warning and valuable help to prevent it. It can also provide a timeline of the user’s activities and state of mind before suicide. Conclusions: Social media can detect suicidal tendencies, support those seeking help, comfort family and friends with their grief, and provide insights via timelining the users’ activities leading to their suicide. One of the limitations was the lack of quantitative studies evaluating preventative efforts on Facebook. The creators’ commitment and the users’ social responsibility will be required to create a mentally healthy Facebook environment. MDPI 2022-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9603228/ /pubmed/36293584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013001 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Shoib, Sheikh
Chandradasa, Miyuru
Nahidi, Mahsa
Amanda, Tan Weiling
Khan, Sonia
Saeed, Fahimeh
Swed, Sarya
Mazza, Marianna
Di Nicola, Marco
Martinotti, Giovanni
Di Giannantonio, Massimo
Armiya’u, Aishatu Yusha’u
De Berardis, Domenico
Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review
title Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review
title_full Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review
title_fullStr Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review
title_full_unstemmed Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review
title_short Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review
title_sort facebook and suicidal behaviour: user experiences of suicide notes, live-streaming, grieving and preventive strategies—a scoping review
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013001
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