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Finden suizidale Suchtkranke Hilfsangebote im Internet?

Do individuals with substance use disorders find information for crisis intervention and suicide prevention resources on the Internet?

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Zusammenfassung

Hintergrund

Suizidalität ist gerade bei suchtkranken Patienten ein Thema von erheblicher Bedeutung. Die wenigen Studien zu Hilfsangeboten im Internet haben bisher keine eindeutigen Ergebnisse erzielt.

Material und Methoden

Es wurden deutschsprachige suizid- und suchtrelevante Suchbegriffe in 5 häufig genutzte Suchmaschinen eingegeben. Die Suchergebnisse wurden in Pro-, Antisuizid-, suizidneutrale Website, Website ohne Bezug zu Suizid oder „Error“ klassifiziert.

Ergebnisse

Es wurden Webseiten, die Hilfsangebote bei Suizidalität lieferten, deutlich seltener als Websites angeboten, die keinerlei Hilfsangebote lieferten. Bei suizidassoziierten Suchbegriffen (wie „Selbsttötung“) zeigte fast die Hälfte aller gefundenen Internetseiten sofort oder per Hyperlink Hilfsangebote an. Internetseiten mit Anleitungen zum Suizid wurden nur selten angetroffen.

Schlussfolgerung

Angesichts der Schwierigkeiten für Suchtkranke, sofort und adäquat Hilfe übers Internet zu bekommen, ist eine Ausweitung der rasch zugänglichen Hilfsangebote im Internet dringend erforderlich.

Summary

Background and objective

Suicidality is an important issue for substance-dependent people. The few studies about Internet searches have provided ambiguous results regarding help and support using suicide-related terms.

Material and methods

Five popular search engines and several substance use- and suicide-related German search terms were used; the search results were classified as being pro-suicide, anti-suicide, suicide-neutral, websites not associated with suicide or „page could not be loaded“.

Results

The majority of identified websites was not associated with suicide at all, whereas websites offering help and support were less frequent. Using suicide-associated search terms (such as „Selbsttötung“) almost half of all web pages were help sites. Websites with instructions for committing suicide were very rarely found.

Conclusions

In view of the difficulties for substance abusers to get immediate and adequate information about help and support in a suicidal crisis via the Internet, it is urgently necessary to extend fast available help sites on the Internet.

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Der korrespondierende Autor weist auf folgende Beziehung hin: Barbara Schneider ist Principal Investigator einer klinischen Studie, die von Pierrel Research unterstützt wird.

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Schneider, B., Fritze, J., Georgi, K. et al. Finden suizidale Suchtkranke Hilfsangebote im Internet?. Nervenarzt 82, 859–865 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-010-2974-z

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