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- Title
Finden suizidale Suchtkranke Hilfsangebote im Internet?
- Authors
Schneider, B.; Fritze, J.; Georgi, K.; Grebner, K.
- Abstract
Background and objective: Suicidality is an important issue for substance-dependent people. The few studies about Internet searches have provided ambiguous results regarding help and support using suicide-related terms. Material and methods: Five popular search engines and several substance use- and suicide-related German search terms were used; the search results were classified as being pro-suicide, anti-suicide, suicide-neutral, websites not associated with suicide or 'page could not be loaded'. Results: The majority of identified websites was not associated with suicide at all, whereas websites offering help and support were less frequent. Using suicide-associated search terms (such as 'Selbsttötung') almost half of all web pages were help sites. Websites with instructions for committing suicide were very rarely found. Conclusions: In view of the difficulties for substance abusers to get immediate and adequate information about help and support in a suicidal crisis via the Internet, it is urgently necessary to extend fast available help sites on the Internet.
- Subjects
GERMANY; INTERNET; SUICIDE; SEARCH engines; SUBSTANCE abuse; WEBSITES
- Publication
Der Nervenarzt, 2011, Vol 82, Issue 7, p859
- ISSN
0028-2804
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00115-010-2974-z