First do no harm: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for the impact of individual suicidality on the use of online health forums and support groups
First do no harm: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for the impact of individual suicidality on the use of online health forums and support groups
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10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.009
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2016-08
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S. Scherr;C. Reinemann
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作者：
S. Scherr;C. Reinemann
自杀是世界范围内的主要死亡原因，特别是在年轻人中。这项研究旨在通过一个具有代表性的电话调查和一个包含相同问题措辞的两波在线小组调查，来理清使用在线健康论坛或支持小组与自杀之间的假定因果关系。横断面数据显示，自杀行为与在线健康论坛的使用呈正相关，但并不局限于年轻人。使用纵向面板数据和自回归模型，一个月后自杀对互联网健康论坛使用的正交叉滞后效应被揭示出来。尽管人们普遍认为在线健康论坛会增加自杀率，但本研究提供了证据，证明在线可获取和有用的信息具有预防潜力。
Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, especially among the young. This study aims to disentangle the presumed causality between the use of online health forums or support groups and suicidality using a representative telephone survey and a two-wave online panel survey containing the same question wording. Cross-sectional data show positive correlations between suicidality and online health forum use, but not limited to the younger. Using longitudinal panel data and autoregressive models, a positive cross-lagged effect of suicidality on internet-based health forum use one month later was revealed. Despite the wide-spread notion that online health forums can increase suicidality the present study provides evidence for the preventive potential of accessible and helpful information online.