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Increase in Search Interest for “Suicide” and “Depression” for Particular Days of the Week and Times of Day: Analysis Based on Google Trends

Depression is the most common disorder in people who attempt suicide or die by suicide. Research review indicate that therapy of depression (including psychoeducation) is one of the main factors in the prevention of suicidal behavior. In this paper we examine the intensification of search interest f...

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Autores principales: Stańdo, Jacek, Fechner, Żywilla, Gmitrowicz, Agnieszka, Andriessen, Karl, Krysinska, Karolina, Czabański, Adam
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36614992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010191
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author Stańdo, Jacek
Fechner, Żywilla
Gmitrowicz, Agnieszka
Andriessen, Karl
Krysinska, Karolina
Czabański, Adam
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Fechner, Żywilla
Gmitrowicz, Agnieszka
Andriessen, Karl
Krysinska, Karolina
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description Depression is the most common disorder in people who attempt suicide or die by suicide. Research review indicate that therapy of depression (including psychoeducation) is one of the main factors in the prevention of suicidal behavior. In this paper we examine the intensification of search interest for the terms “depression” and “suicide” in Google search engine with regard to the time of day and day of the week in Poland, Germany, Great Britain and Italy. The goal of the study was to determine if there are any days of the week or hours when search for “suicide” and “depression” particularly increases. Numerous studies focusing not only on the seasonality of suicidal behavior, but also on the days of the week and hours, indicate that it is most often undertaken on Mondays in the night and early morning hours. The results of the research being the basis of this paper show a certain time coincidence: first, the increase in search interest for “suicide” and “depression” and then undertaking suicidal behavior (suicide and suicide attempts). Searching for terms “suicide” and “depression” usually took place (except in Italy) at weekends and most often in the late evening hours and at night. The conclusions from the research can be used in suicide prevention activities, for example in determining the hours of operation of individual helpline numbers.
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spelling pubmed-98209722023-01-07 Increase in Search Interest for “Suicide” and “Depression” for Particular Days of the Week and Times of Day: Analysis Based on Google Trends Stańdo, Jacek Fechner, Żywilla Gmitrowicz, Agnieszka Andriessen, Karl Krysinska, Karolina Czabański, Adam J Clin Med Article Depression is the most common disorder in people who attempt suicide or die by suicide. Research review indicate that therapy of depression (including psychoeducation) is one of the main factors in the prevention of suicidal behavior. In this paper we examine the intensification of search interest for the terms “depression” and “suicide” in Google search engine with regard to the time of day and day of the week in Poland, Germany, Great Britain and Italy. The goal of the study was to determine if there are any days of the week or hours when search for “suicide” and “depression” particularly increases. Numerous studies focusing not only on the seasonality of suicidal behavior, but also on the days of the week and hours, indicate that it is most often undertaken on Mondays in the night and early morning hours. The results of the research being the basis of this paper show a certain time coincidence: first, the increase in search interest for “suicide” and “depression” and then undertaking suicidal behavior (suicide and suicide attempts). Searching for terms “suicide” and “depression” usually took place (except in Italy) at weekends and most often in the late evening hours and at night. The conclusions from the research can be used in suicide prevention activities, for example in determining the hours of operation of individual helpline numbers. MDPI 2022-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9820972/ /pubmed/36614992 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010191 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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Krysinska, Karolina
Czabański, Adam
Increase in Search Interest for “Suicide” and “Depression” for Particular Days of the Week and Times of Day: Analysis Based on Google Trends
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36614992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010191
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