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Objective:To explore the relationship between knowledge of a friend's non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behavior and self injury and suicide behaviors of adolescents.Methods:From January 2020 to January 2021, totally 1 683 students from a middle school in Xiamen were randomly selected by cluster sampling.The suicide items of the self-injurious thoughts and behaviors interview(SITBT) were used to assess whether students were aware of their friends' self injurious history and their self injurious behaviors.The suicide items of the mini international neuropsychiatric interview for children and adolescents (MINI-KID) were used to assess students' suicide ideation and behavior.The data were statistically analyzed by SPSS 21.0 software.Logistic regression model was used to analyze the relationship between knowledge of a friend's NSSI and adolescents' own self-reported NSSI and suicidal behaviors.Results:A total of 1 683 junior and senior high school students completed the survey, including 412 (24.4%) who knew their friend's NSSI history and 1 271 (75.6%) who did not know their friend's NSSI history.There were statistically significant differences between the adolescents known and unknown friends' NSSI histories in terms of age, gender, whether they were left-behind children, mental disorders, their own NSSI, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation (all P<0.05). Knowledge of a friend's NSSI behavior had positive predictive effect on adolescents' own NSSI behavior ( β=0.558, OR=2.01, 95% CI=1.58-3.88), suicidal ideation( β=0.238, OR=3.03, 95% CI=2.08-5.55), and suicide attempts ( β=0.233, OR=2.88, 95% CI=1.55-5.45) (all P<0.05). Conclusion:Knowledge of a friend's NSSI behavior may have an impact on adolescents' own self-injury and suicidal behavior.
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O fenômeno do efeito contágio na mídia não é novo, mas muito atual. No Brasil a mídia é a terceira maior causa de suicídio em jovens de 15 a 29 anos, e um grave problema de saúde pública. Nesse ensaio desvelamos por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica as evidências que suportam o efeito epidêmico de suicídio na mídia e seus modos de operação por meio de teorias como a de Albert Bandura e sua Teoria da Aprendizagem Social. Tal relação é aqui prestigiada em função dos mais recentes sucessos como 13 Reasons Why e Euphoria, que descrevem o suicídio e comportamentos autodestrutivos de forma curiosamente descuidada. Apontamos como urgente a necessidade de normatização legal da produção e distribuição dessas mensagens nos meios de comunicação social brasileiros, que venha a contemplar os diversos gêneros audiovisuais e, sobretudo, os novos suportes de veiculação caracterizados por seu modelo assincrônico de distribuição de conteúdo.
The phenomenon of the contagion effect in the media is not new, but very current. In Brazil, the media is the third leading cause of suicide in young people aged 15 to 29, and a serious public health problem. In this text, we unveiled through a bibliographic review the evidence that supports the epidemic effect of suicide in the media and its modes of operation through theories such as that of Albert Bandura and his Theory of Social Learning. This relationship is prestigious here due to the most recent hits such as 13 Reasons Why and Euphoria, which describe suicide and self-destructive behaviors in a curiously careless way. We point out as urgent the need for legal regulation of the production and distribution of these messages in the Brazilian media, which will include the various audiovisual genres and, above all, the new media that are characterized by their asynchronous model of content distribution.
El fenómeno del efecto contagio en los medios no es nuevo, sino muy actual. En Brasil, los medios son la tercera causa principal de suicidio en jóvenes de 15 a 29 años y un grave problema de salud pública. En este texto, revelamos a través de una revisión bibliográfica la evidencia que respalda el efecto epidémico del suicidio en los medios y sus modos de operación a través de teorías como la de Albert Bandura y su Teoría del aprendizaje social. Esta relación es prestigiosa aquí debido a los éxitos más recientes, como 13 Razones Por Qué y Euforia, que describen el suicidio y los comportamientos autodestructivos de una manera curiosamente descuidada. Señalamos como urgente la necesidad de una regulación legal de la producción y distribución de estos mensajes en los medios brasileños, que incluirán los diversos géneros audiovisuales y, sobre todo, los nuevos medios que se caracterizan por su modelo asíncrono de distribución de contenido.