When "Self‐Harm" Means "Suicide": A Topic Modeling Study of Adolescent Online Help‐Seeking for Self‐Harm.
Introduction: The 15%–20% of adolescents worldwide who engage in nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) face an increased risk of transitioning from suicidal ideation to suicide attempt. To resist NSSI urges, young people often seek peer support online. We examined adolescent help‐seeking on a purpose‐built...
| Publicado en: | Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 1 - 9 |
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Dec2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=190515377&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 190515377 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03630234 SUI jtl: Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior issn: 03630234 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2025 vid: 55 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 190515377 10.1111/sltb.70055 ppf: 1 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: When "Self‐Harm" Means "Suicide": A Topic Modeling Study of Adolescent Online Help‐Seeking for Self‐Harm. aug: au: Lind, Monika Neff Razi, Afsaneh Scholten, Hanneke George, Madeleine J. De Choudhury, Munmun Granic, Isabela Lal, Shalini Wisniewski, Pamela J. Allen, Nicholas B. affil: Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon,, USA Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine California,, USA Department of Information Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia Pennsylvania,, USA Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando Florida,, USA Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Community Health and Implementation Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park North Carolina,, USA School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia,, USA Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario,, Canada School of Rehabilitation, University of Montreal, Montreal Quebec,, Canada International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley California,, USA su: Suicide Self-injurious behavior Teenagers Mental health Pattern perception Peer training programs (Education) sug: subj: Suicide Self-injurious behavior Teenagers Mental health Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) Pattern perception Peer training programs (Education) keyword: adolescence help‐seeking online peer support self‐harm suicide adolescence help‐seeking online peer support self‐harm suicide ab: Introduction: The 15%–20% of adolescents worldwide who engage in nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) face an increased risk of transitioning from suicidal ideation to suicide attempt. To resist NSSI urges, young people often seek peer support online. We examined adolescent help‐seeking on a purpose‐built online mental health peer support platform, which is a critically understudied help‐seeking venue. Methods: Adolescents' help‐seeking posts in the "Self Harm" category on a large online peer support platform (575,261 posts from 114,937 users) were analyzed using topic modeling. We assessed the prevalence of NSSI‐related topics versus morbid/suicidal topics. Results: Our 12‐topic model produced interpretable themes. Three main findings emerged: posts included little information about the context of self‐harm behavior; there was minimal evidence of pro‐self‐harm content in posts; and the primary topics of the posts were evenly split between NSSI‐related topics and morbid/suicidal topics. Conclusion: Our findings have important implications for online mental health communities: requiring users to select a narrow category for their post may limit contextual information; moderation of pro‐self‐harm content may reduce its prevalence; and the absence of dedicated spaces for suicidal users may funnel those users into NSSI‐focused spaces, potentially increasing risk for all users. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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