Conveners
Session 2: Statistics in Social Sciences
- Davin Simon
- Luka Kronegger
Social stigma and feelings of helplessness make it difficult for young people to seek face-to-face counselling for mental health problems and suicidality, however, due to its anonymity and convenience, the internet has proven to be an efficient tool in overcoming those barriers. Especially online health communities and online counselling services can be an important source of easily accessible...
Introduction
Literature on temporal patterns of suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic among youths is growing. The present work proposes a Bayesian approach to assess the COVID-19 pandemic temporal patterns of suicidality among inpatient adolescents.
Methods
Data referred to the first hospital discharge record with a suicidality-related ICD9-CM code among adolescents aged...
The article aims at exploring the impact of the COVID pandemic on the lay discourses of depression emerging in online mental health forums. The narrative framing of depression plays a central role not only because it affects the instrumental strategies of the depressed subjects (e.g. preferred therapy), but also because it is a constitutive element of the identity of depressed subjects, thus...
