Bullying Including Cyber Bullying Increases the Risk of Suicidal Behaviour

Abstract

Introduction:Suicidal behaviour is one of the most common reasons for presentation to the emergency rooms. Bullying is a universal public health concern that affects significant number of adolescents. Many children and adolescents are recurrently involved in school bullying. Research suggests that both bullies and victims are overrepresented amongst those seen by mental health professionals. Objectives: Understand the the relationship between bullying and suicidal behaviour, prevalence of different kinds of bullying in patients with mental health problems and prevalence of cyber bullying and it's affect on the victim Aim: Increase public awareness on importance of cyber bullying. We feel that many patients won't disclose that they had been or are being cyber bullied because the characteristics are unclear. Method:Charts of all patients who visited emergency room from 2011 to 2013 with a mental health complaint were reviewed. Variables understudy were gender, history of bullying, type of bullying (verbal, physical, emotional), DSM-IV-TR diagnosis and outcome following the assessment. Results: Our study shows significant association between bullying, and suicidal behaviours, although based on our study, this predictor was not commonly assessed. Conclusion:Our study showed that there was a significant link between bullying and future suicidal behaviour which is not commonly assessed. It is important that physicians identify these risk factor while assessing suicidality. Involvement in current cyber bullying was found to be less frequent than other forms of bullying such as verbal and physical. However, significant links were observed between cyber bullying and suicidal behaviour.

Risk Factors for Suicide and Suicidal Behavior Relevant to Emergency Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review of Post‐2007 Reviews

“…Cyberbullying also increases the risk of suicide attempts for both victims and perpetrators, and is more strongly related to suicide ideation than traditional bullying (Daine et al., ; Van Geel et al., ). Although some research finds cyberbullying to be less frequent than other forms of bullying, for example, verbal and physical (Alavi et al., ; Sinyor, Schaffer, & Cheung, ), the current review's findings have demonstrated that there is a relationship between cyberbullying and suicidal behaviors, and that risk factors such as bullying are commonly being overlooked in emergency room suicide risk assessments (Alavi et al., ). However, this area of research is in relative infancy as worldwide Internet use has risen by a quarter between 2005 and 2014 (International Telecommunication Union, ).…”

“…Furthermore, there have been technological changes in society, and research has found that cyberbullying is more strongly related to suicide ideation compared with traditional bullying (Van Geel, Vedder, & Tanilon, ). According to recent findings, risk factors such as bullying are being overlooked in emergency room suicide risk assessments (Alavi, Reshetukha, & Prost, ). Therefore, additional research is needed to identify further evidence for risk factors such as cyberbullying, which may have recently developed.…”

“…Second, as there is currently no clear pathway through which people seeking support or help for suicide‐related admissions exists in the UK setting, with emergency settings being one such route through which any individual can enter, it is essential that wider populations than simply “known patients within emergency settings” are considered and included when identifying and discussing potentially applicable and assessable risk factors within these settings. The review aims to fill gaps in the literature, so that new findings can inform practice and be adopted into future suicide risk assessment, as recently identified risk factors may be overlooked in emergency settings (Alavi et al., ). The current review is concerned only with research involving suicide and behaviors with suicidal intent, and does not include self‐harm where suicidal intent is not present.…”

Cyberbullying identification in twitter using support vector machine and information gain based feature selection

“…Linear SVM is used when data to be classified can be separated by a hyperplane, whereas a non-linear SVM is used when data can only be separated by curved lines. SVM Polynomial has a function definition with (5).…”

“…Cyberbullying is one of the violent acts committed by a person against his victim on the internet, where the victim is humiliated, ridiculed, and intimidated [3]. Cyberbullying can have an impact on victim's mental, even there is many cases where the victims of bullying end up in suicide because they can not stand with much pressure [4][5]. Currently the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics (KOMINFO) is working with Google and Twitter in the prevention of negative content on the internet such as pornography, hoaxes, cyberbullying, and others.…”