The association between <i>13 Reasons Why</i> and suicidal ideation and behaviors, mental health symptoms, and help-seeking behaviors in youths: An integrative systematic review

Leaune, Édouard; Leclerc, Julie; Fender, Robin; Notredame, Charles-Édouard; Jurek, Lucie; Poulet, Emmanuel

doi:10.1080/00207411.2022.2064176

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“…The discussion of the current study would be incomplete without mentioning a previous systematic review, published in April 2022, that focused on the association between 13RW’s first season and suicidal ideation/behaviors, mental health symptoms, and help-seeking behaviors in youths [ 73 ]. The study was instructive and well-written, used a robust methodology and reached conclusions that were in line with ours in general terms.…”

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Towards the Influence of Media on Suicidality: A Systematic Review of Netflix’s ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’

Guinovart

Gómez

González-Rodríguez

et al. 2023

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Online streaming series ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ (13RW), released in March 2017, was criticized for its sensationalist portrayal of the main character’s suicide, leading some people to voice fears of a global contagion of self-harm behaviors. The current investigation provides a systematic review of original studies analyzing the role of 13RW as an influencing factor for suicide. Articles were identified through a systematic search of Medline, Web of Science, Scopus, PsycInfo, and a manual search of reference lists from inception until the 16 January 2023. Twenty-seven published articles were identified from an initial search of 496 studies. The positive effects of watching 13RW included a reduction in suicide stigma and a greater likelihood to discuss mental health concerns and seek for help. However, several studies reported negative outcomes, including significant increases in the rate of deaths by suicide in adolescents, the number of admissions for suicidal reasons, and the prevalence and severity of suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviors in vulnerable viewers. Still, due to methodological limitations, no causal relationship could be established. Preventive measures are required to alert of the risk and should be particularly addressed to susceptible subjects. Psychoeducational programs should be focused on this kind of phenomena in vulnerable populations.

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Towards the Influence of Media on Suicidality: A Systematic Review of Netflix’s ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’

Guinovart

Gómez

González-Rodríguez

et al. 2023

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Invited editorial: Suicidality in child and adolescents facing challenging times

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2022

International Journal of Mental Health

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Applying the Visual-Verbal Video Analysis Framework to Understand How Mental Illness is Represented in the TV Show Euphoria

Ben-David,

Campos,

Nahal

et al. 2024

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Mental illness in media can shape viewer’s beliefs about mental health, help-seeking, and empathic behaviors. The current study sought to investigate how mental health and substance use is depicted in popular media targeted for youth. The visual-verbal video analysis (VVVA) framework was applied to the HBO American drama television series Euphoria to understand how mental illness, substance use, and mental health service use is portrayed, and how characters respond to mental health scenes. Euphoria follows a group of high school students as they navigate adolescence, mental illness and substance use. The VVVA provides a framework for social science and medical researchers to qualitatively analyze multimodal information (e.g., text, cinematography, music and sounds, body language and facial expressions) of visual content. This commentary will briefly describe the VVVA framework, provide an overview of how the framework was applied and adapted to analyze a scene in the television series Euphoria, note similarities and differences to the original VVVA framework, and benefits and drawbacks. The VVVA framework was flexible and effective in coding various elements (e.g., body language, camera angles) in a scene in Euphoria.

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The association between 13 Reasons Why and suicidal ideation and behaviors, mental health symptoms, and help-seeking behaviors in youths: An integrative systematic review

Cited by 3 publications

References 54 publications

Towards the Influence of Media on Suicidality: A Systematic Review of Netflix’s ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’

Towards the Influence of Media on Suicidality: A Systematic Review of Netflix’s ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’

Invited editorial: Suicidality in child and adolescents facing challenging times

Applying the Visual-Verbal Video Analysis Framework to Understand How Mental Illness is Represented in the TV Show Euphoria

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