Background Suicide is a major public health problem and a cause of premature mortality.
With a view to prevention, a great deal of research has been devoted to the determinants of …

Economic circumstances and related factors, including unemployment and poverty, can
have substantial effects on suicide rates. This relationship applies in all countries …

Objective To assess changes in daily call volumes to the US National Suicide Prevention
Lifeline and in suicides during periods of wide scale public attention to the song “1-800-273 …

This is the third of three reports in the MMWR supplement that updates and expands CDC's
guidance for assessing, investigating, and responding to suicide clusters based on current …

The mechanisms underlying the contagion effect of violence and suicide are currently
unclear. It has been argued that social learning, identification with significant others, and the …

Transmission is an important concept in suicide prevention. It can occur when exposure to
another person's death by suicide (or to suicide-related information more generally) draws …

The Papageno effect concerns how media can play a positive role in preventing and
mitigating suicidal ideation and behaviors. With the increasing ubiquity and widespread use …

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess associations of various content areas of
Twitter posts with help-seeking from the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) …

Executive summary By delivering transformative shifts in societal attitudes and initiating a
radical redesign of mental health care, we can fundamentally improve the lives of people …

Objective: Specific content characteristics of suicide media reporting might differentially
impact suicides in the population, but studies have not considered the overarching theme of …