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. 2021 May 13;8(5):e26654. doi: 10.2196/26654

Table 4.

Assessing suicide reporting quality on social media against the WHO guidelines (n=2366).

Items Value, n (%)
Harmful information

Vividness of the reporting


Headline contains suicide-related words 1292 (54.61)


Suggestive symbols or emojis used 880 (37.91)


Hashtag used 331 (13.99)

Disclosure of private information


Exposure of images of people who died by suicide 1172(49.54)


Interviews with relatives of people who died by suicide 376 (15.89)


Disclosure of the suicide note 268 (11.33)

Level of detail of the suicide description


Detailed description of the suicide method 568 (24.01)


Detailed description of the suicide site 475 (20.08)
Helpful information

Emphasize relationship between suicide and mental disorders 257 (10.86)

Provide suicide prevention knowledge 137 (5.79)

Provide information about support programs 2 (0.08)