Natural language processing of social media as screening for suicide risk

G Coppersmith, R Leary… - Biomedical informatics …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Suicide is among the 10 most common causes of death, as assessed by the World Health
Organization. For every death by suicide, an estimated 138 people's lives are meaningfully …

Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review

JJ Mann, A Apter, J Bertolote, A Beautrais, D Currier… - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextIn 2002, an estimated 877 000 lives were lost worldwide through suicide. Some
developed nations have implemented national suicide prevention plans. Although these …

Health care contacts in the year before suicide death

BK Ahmedani, GE Simon, C Stewart, A Beck… - Journal of general …, 2014 - Springer
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Suicide prevention is a public health priority, but no data on the
health care individuals receive prior to death are available from large representative United …

Does response on the PHQ-9 Depression Questionnaire predict subsequent suicide attempt or suicide death?

GE Simon, CM Rutter, D Peterson, M Oliver… - Psychiatric …, 2013 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective As use of standard depression questionnaires in clinical practice increases,
clinicians will frequently encounter patients reporting thoughts of death or suicide. This study …

Meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies of suicide risk assessment among psychiatric patients: heterogeneity in results and lack of improvement over time

M Large, M Kaneson, N Myles, H Myles, P Gunaratne… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Objective It is widely assumed that the clinical care of psychiatric patients can be guided by
estimates of suicide risk and by using patient characteristics to define a group of high-risk …

Suicide prevention and depression apps' suicide risk assessment and management: a systematic assessment of adherence to clinical guidelines

L Martinengo, L Van Galen, E Lum, M Kowalski… - BMC medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background There are an estimated 800,000 suicides per year globally, and approximately
16,000,000 suicide attempts. Mobile apps may help address the unmet needs of people at …

[HTML][HTML] Validating machine learning algorithms for Twitter data against established measures of suicidality

SR Braithwaite, C Giraud-Carrier, J West… - JMIR mental …, 2016 - mental.jmir.org
Background: One of the leading causes of death in the United States (US) is suicide and
new methods of assessment are needed to track its risk in real time. Objective: Our objective …

Evaluating iatrogenic risk of youth suicide screening programs: a randomized controlled trial

MS Gould, FA Marrocco, M Kleinman, JG Thomas… - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextUniversal screening for mental health problems and suicide risk is at the forefront of
the national agenda for youth suicide prevention, yet no study has directly addressed the …

Adolescent depression and suicide risk: association with sex and drug behavior

DD Hallfors, MW Waller, CA Ford, CT Halpern… - American journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Depression is common among adolescents, and suicide is the third leading
cause of death among 15-to 19-year-olds. Although both health problems have been …

Predicting future suicide attempts among adolescent and emerging adult psychiatric emergency patients

AG Horwitz, EK Czyz, CA King - Journal of Clinical Child & …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to longitudinally examine specific characteristics of suicidal
ideation in combination with histories of suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) …