If your friend is struggling with suicidal thoughts, are you at greater risk? A meta-analysis of over 1 million people explores the evidence.
[read the full story...]Can You ‘Catch’ Suicide? What This Meta-Analysis Really Tells Us
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Suicide prevention: expanding the narrative to preventing the crisis, not just treating the crisis
Something a bit different today, as Kirsten Lawson summarises the recent Lancet Public Health series on suicide prevention, which looks at public health interventions, addressing the risk factors and determinants of suicide, and the transmissibility of suicide.
[read the full story...]#Instagram: Is it dangerous in terms of suicide and self-harm content?
Jess Williams explores a recent systematic review which explores whether suicide and self-harm content on Instagram is dangerous or not.
[read the full story...]Suicide awareness materials: do they help people with suicidal ideation?
Hanzla Amir and Derek Tracy summarise a recent online randomised controlled trial on the effects of suicide awareness materials on people who feel suicidal, which finds that the Papageno effect is real and that stories of hope and recovery can help.
[read the full story...]Media reporting of suicide: do we need more than guidelines?
Anna Sri summarises a recent systemic review and meta-analysis led by Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, which explores the association between media reporting of suicide and actual suicidal behaviour in the community; a phenomenon known as the Werther effect.
[read the full story...]Suicide clusters in young people: definition, epidemiology and prevention
A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise a recent literature review, which explores suicide clusters in young people (aged 25 or younger).
[read the full story...]Is suicide contagious? Definition and epidemiology of suicide clusters
Mark Smith summarises a recent narrative synthesis of research looking at the definition and epidemiology of suicide clusters.
[read the full story...]Suicidal ideation and behaviour may increase when adolescents are exposed to schoolmate and personally known suicides
Suicidal ideation and behaviours are widespread and serious amongst adolescents (Husky et al., 2012). One theory suggests that suicide in this age group is caused by ‘suicide contagion’ (exposure to a suicide may influence an individual to attempt suicide). Ecological studies have indeed demonstrated this and show that suicide rates increase following a highly publicised [read the full story…]