The steps that young people and suicide prevention professionals think the social media industry and policymakers should take to improve online safety. A nested cross-sectional study within a Delphi consensus approach.

Journal: Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Concerns exist about the relationship between social media and youth self-harm and suicide. Study aims were to examine the extent to which young people and suicide prevention professionals agreed on: (1) the utility of actions that social media companies currently take in response to self-harm and suicide-related content; and (2) further steps that the social media industry and policymakers could take to improve online safety.

Authors

  • Jo Robinson
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Pinar Thorn
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Samuel McKay
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Hannah Richards
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Rikki Battersby-Coulter
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Michelle Lamblin
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Laura Hemming
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Louise La Sala
    Suicide Prevention, Orygen, Parkville, VIC, Australia.

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