The association of internet searches and actual suicide in Spain

High suicide rates are a major issue in Spain, to the extent that they are the main non-natural cause of death in this country. The present study analyses the relationship between Internet searches and actual suicide rates in Spain. For this purpose, we employ data from actual suicide rates and Google® searches for Spain, differencing by the means used to commit suicide. Our results show that suicide ("suicidio") search term seems to be positively associated with higher total suicide rates, in addition to suicides using poison, suffocation and jumping. The suicide ("suicidio") topic presents similar results to the suicide search term, and suicide by car crash also seems to be associated with Internet searches of this topic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Enthalten in:

The Journal of general psychology - (2023) vom: 30. Okt., Seite 1-19

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro [VerfasserIn]
Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar David [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

C22
D91
Google trends®
I10
Journal Article
Spain
Suicide

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Date Revised 31.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1080/00221309.2023.2276803

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363965645