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- Title
Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigating Mental Health, COVID-19 Health Beliefs, and News Media Consumption in the United States Population in the Year 2020.
- Authors
Lueck, Jennifer A.; Callaghan, Timothy; Scherr, Sebastian
- Abstract
This study examines the role of general news media consumption during COVID-19 in aggravating mental health and suicide risk in the US population. In a sample of U.S. adults (N = 5,010), we investigated how mental health, COVID-19 health beliefs, and general news consumption influenced the odds of suicidal ideation using hierarchical logistic regression models. Both worsening mental health overall and specifically in regard to COVID-19 increased suicidal ideation. Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection did not increase suicidal ideation, yet higher levels of COVID-19 self-efficacy reduced suicidal ideation. Overall news consumption did not affect suicidal ideation, but media-specific post-hoc analyses revealed that TV news watching decreased suicidal ideation as much as high levels of COVID-19 self-efficacy decreased suicidal ideation. Furthermore, online news consumption increased suicidal ideation as much as worsening mental health overall increased suicidal ideation. Further implications are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRESS criticism; MASS media criticism; STATISTICS; COVID-19; CROSS-sectional method; SUICIDAL ideation; RISK assessment; SELF-efficacy; HEALTH attitudes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; LOGISTIC regression analysis; DATA analysis; DATA analysis software; COVID-19 pandemic
- Publication
Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 2024, Vol 88, Issue 3, p1168
- ISSN
0030-2228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00302228211062361