Internet Searches for Suicide Following the Release of 13 Reasons Why

John W Ayers; Benjamin M Althouse; Eric C Leas; Mark Dredze; Jon-Patrick Allem

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.3333

Internet Searches for Suicide Following the Release of 13 Reasons Why

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Oct 1;177(10):1527-1529. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.3333.

Authors

John W Ayers¹, Benjamin M Althouse^{2

3

4}, Eric C Leas^{1

5}, Mark Dredze⁶, Jon-Patrick Allem⁷

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.
² Institute for Disease Modeling, Bellevue, Washington.
³ University of Washington, Seattle.
⁴ New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.
⁵ University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California.
⁶ Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁷ Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Abstract

This quasiexperimental examination of internet search results determines that the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has both increased suicide awareness while unintentionally increasing suicidal ideation.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Humans
Internet / statistics & numerical data
Motion Pictures / statistics & numerical data
Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Search Engine / statistics & numerical data*
Suicide / statistics & numerical data*

Grants and funding

R21 MH103603/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States