Indicators of Suicide Found on Social Networks: Phase 1

Abstract

This is a retrospective study examining social media posts made by military Service personnel 1 year prior to their deaths. The sample consisted of 700 randomly selected military Service personnel who died by suicide and a control group that demographically matched the suicide group. Only 482 subjects were found to have social networking profiles, and of those, 315 subjects had publicly available information available for assessment. The social media data were coded by staff and graduate students at the University of Utah s National Center for Veteran s Studies (NCVS) for clinical indicators of suicide and then analyzed to identify relationships between indicators and cause of death. Findings suggest that social media data provide insight on subjects thoughts and behaviors within the year preceding death.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 07, 2015
Accession Number
ADA633259

Entities

People

  • Andree E. Rose
  • Christina M. Hesse
  • Craig J. Bryan

Organizations

  • Defense Manpower Data Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Personnel
  • Data Centers
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Internet
  • Media
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Online Communications
  • Regression Analysis
  • Risk Factors
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Oncology