Table 4.
Assessing suicide reporting quality on social media against the WHO guidelines (n=2366).
| Items | Value, n (%) | ||
| Harmful information | |||
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Vividness of the reporting | ||
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Headline contains suicide-related words | 1292 (54.61) |
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Suggestive symbols or emojis used | 880 (37.91) |
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Hashtag used | 331 (13.99) |
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Disclosure of private information | ||
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Exposure of images of people who died by suicide | 1172(49.54) |
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Interviews with relatives of people who died by suicide | 376 (15.89) |
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Disclosure of the suicide note | 268 (11.33) |
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Level of detail of the suicide description | ||
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Detailed description of the suicide method | 568 (24.01) |
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Detailed description of the suicide site | 475 (20.08) |
| Helpful information | |||
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Emphasize relationship between suicide and mental disorders | 257 (10.86) | |
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Provide suicide prevention knowledge | 137 (5.79) | |
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Provide information about support programs | 2 (0.08) | |