Discovering Shifts to Suicidal Ideation from Mental Health Content in Social Media
Georgia Institute of Technology · Microsoft (United States) · +1 more institution
Abstract
History of mental illness is a major factor behind suicide risk and ideation. However research efforts toward characterizing and forecasting this risk is limited due to the paucity of information regarding suicide ideation, exacerbated by the stigma of mental illness. This paper fills gaps in the literature by developing a statistical methodology to infer which individuals could undergo transitions from mental health discourse to suicidal ideation. We utilize semi-anonymous support communities on Reddit as unobtrusive data sources to infer the likelihood of these shifts. We develop language and interactional measures for this purpose, as well as a propensity score matching based statistical approach. Our…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 92.12
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- 100%
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- 76
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5Topics & keywords
- Suicidal ideation
- Ideation
- Mental illness
- Mental health
- Psychology
- Stigma (botany)
- Social media
- Suicide prevention