Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Corresponding author: Charles-Edouard Notredame; Email: charles-edouard. The song addresses his personal struggles with suicidal ideation. We employed the Gombay test to identify change points within each time series.
No similar effect was observed in the general population or other young age groups. The show was immediately followed by a peak in tweets referring to the singer, while Twitter activity related to the remained modest.
We did not observe any increase in calls to the helpline. Celebrity testimonies about suicidal experiences can help alleviate stigma but should be accompanied by prevention messages to reduce the risk of contagion. Keywords: helpline, social media, suicide attempt, suicide contagion, Werther effect. The performance was perceived as a breakthrough moment in suicide prevention, promoting more open discussions about suicidal behaviors. The event also garnered significant online attention, with numerous social media posts referencing suicide prevention.
However, the impact of this type of event on suicidal outcomes, help-seeking behaviors, and social media reaction remains unclear. We included patients aged 10 years and older, discharged between January 1, , and March 31, , with International Classification of Diseases codes X60โX Finally, the IT department of , the new French national helpline, provided weekly exhaustive exports of time-stamped incoming calls from its launch on October 1, , to March 31, We analyzed the evolution of SA-related hospital admission rates, number of tweets, and calls to as time series, which we modeled using autoregressive integrative moving average ARIMA processes.
When a significant mean change-point was identified, we split the time series, computed separate ARIMA models before and after this point, and compared the corresponding parameters. For SA time series, we first analyzed the overall population, then performed subgroup analyses on adolescents and young adults women aged 15โ19 years, men aged 15โ19 years, women aged 20โ24 years, and men aged 20โ24 years , who are known to be at higher risk for SA, especially since the COVID pandemic [ 1 ].
