Developing social media-based suicide prevention messages in partnership with young people: Exploratory study

JMIR Mental Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Robinson, Jo ^a   Bailey, Eleanor ^a   Hetrick, Sarah ^a   Paix, Steve ^b   O'Donnell, Matt ^b   Cox, Georgina ^a   Ftanou, Maria ^c   Skehan, Jaelea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b String Theory Creative   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Hunter Institute of Mental Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Mass media; Social media; Suicidal ideation; Suicide; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045671205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23687959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mental.7847     Document Type: Article

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