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Paper Abstract Objective: Media stories on how to cope with suicidal crises have been shown to reduce suicidal ideation, but studies investigating if effects differ depending on delivery by individuals with or without personal experience of suicidality are lacking. The present study aimed to examine effects of newspaper articles featuring interviews with experts with vs. without personal experience of suicidal ideation. Method: A total of 527 adults were randomized to read a newspaper article featuring an interview with a suicide expert disclosing personal experience of suicidal ideation, the same article without disclosure of personal experience, or an article unrelated to suicide in a web-based randomized controlled trial. The primary outcome was suicidal ideation; the secondary outcome was suicide-prevention-related knowledge. Data were collected using online questionnaires before and after exposure. Results: Participants in the two intervention groups reported a decrease in suicidal ideation (Group #1: P < .001, d = -0.16, 95% CI -0.25 to -0.07; Group #2: P < .001, d = -0.25, 95% CI -0.33 to -0.16) and an increase in suicide-prevention-related knowledge (Group #1: P < .001, d = 0.72, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.81; Group #2: P < .001, d = 0.70, 95% CI 0.62 to 0.79) after article exposure. There were no differences between the two intervention groups. Conclusions: Educative media interviews with suicide prevention experts who disclose or do not disclose their personal experience of suicidality seem to be effective for suicide preventive education in the general public.
Paper Citation Till, B., Arendt, F., Scherr, S., & Niederkrotenthaler, T. (2019). Effect of educative suicide prevention news articles featuring experts with vs without personal experience of suicidal ideation: A randomized controlled trial of the Papageno effect. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 80(1), 17m11975. doi: 10.4088/JCP.17m11975.
Paper URL http://dx.doi.org/10.4088/JCP.17m11975
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