Google Trends®: Ready for real-time suicide prevention or just a Zeta-Jones effect? An exploratory study

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 913-917

  Fond, Guillaume ^a,b,d   Gaman, Alexandru ^b   Brunel, Lore ^a,b,d   Haffen, Emmanuel ^b,e   Llorca, Pierre Michel ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b FONDATION FONDAMENTAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CLERMONT FERRAND   (France)

^d Network of Expert centres for Schizophrenia   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Depression; Google; Internet; Prevention; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEARCH ENGINE; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; WEB BROWSER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; IMITATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MASS MEDIUM; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMANTICS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TRENDS;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEARCH ENGINE; SEMANTICS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84938749563     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.04.022     Document Type: Article

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