A systematic review of the relationship between internet use, self-harm and suicidal behaviour in young people: The good, the bad and the unknown

A Marchant, K Hawton, A Stewart, P Montgomery… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Research exploring internet use and self-harm is rapidly expanding amidst
concerns regarding influences of on-line activities on self-harm and suicide, especially in …

The use of google trends in health care research: a systematic review

SV Nuti, B Wayda, I Ranasinghe, S Wang, RP Dreyer… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Google Trends is a novel, freely accessible tool that allows users to interact with
Internet search data, which may provide deep insights into population behavior and health …

Suicide and suicide attempts in adolescents

B Shain, PK Braverman, WP Adelman… - …, 2016 - publications.aap.org
The number of adolescent deaths that result from suicide in the United States had been
increasing dramatically during recent decades until 1990, when it began to decrease …

Google searches for suicide and suicide risk factors in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

EA Halford, AM Lake, MS Gould - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the COVID-19 respiratory illness,
emerged in December of 2019 and has since spread globally. The dramatic lifestyle …

Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JP Rogers, E Chesney, D Oliver, N Begum… - Epidemiology and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
AimsSuicide accounts for 2.2% of all years of life lost worldwide. We aimed to establish
whether infectious epidemics are associated with any changes in the incidence of suicide or …

Global disease monitoring and forecasting with Wikipedia

N Generous, G Fairchild, A Deshpande… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Infectious disease is a leading threat to public health, economic stability, and other key
social structures. Efforts to mitigate these impacts depend on accurate and timely monitoring …

A Google-based approach for monitoring suicide risk

P Solano, M Ustulin, E Pizzorno, M Vichi, M Pompili… - Psychiatry …, 2016 - Elsevier
People seeking information and news regarding suicide are likely to use the Internet.
However, evidence of the relationship between suicide-related search volumes and national …

The association of suicide-related Twitter use with suicidal behaviour: a cross-sectional study of young internet users in Japan

H Sueki - Journal of affective disorders, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Infodemiology studies for suicide prevention have become increasingly
common in recent years. However, the association between Twitter use and suicide has only …

[PDF][PDF] Estimating suicide occurrence statistics using Google Trends

L Kristoufek, HS Moat, T Preis - EPJ data science, 2016 - Springer
Data on the number of people who have committed suicide tends to be reported with a
substantial time lag of around two years. We examine whether online activity measured by …

Low validity of Google Trends for behavioral forecasting of national suicide rates

US Tran, R Andel, T Niederkrotenthaler, B Till… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Recent research suggests that search volumes of the most popular search engine
worldwide, Google, provided via Google Trends, could be associated with national suicide …