Rosemary Sedgwick|Sophie Epstein|Rina Dutta|Dennis Ougrin
Social media, internet use and suicide attempts in adolescents
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust|King's College London|South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust|King's College London|South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust|King's College London
suicide second leading cause death youth aged 1024 years old globally detecting risk challenging novel preventive strategies wide influence across populations required interest potential detrimental supportive influences social mediainternet use suicidal behaviour growing however relationship remains uncleara systematic search articles database inception 25 january 2019 across five databases medline psycinfo embase hmic cinahl revealed nine independent studies investigating social mediainternet use suicide attempts young people less 19 years old n 346 416 independent direct association found heavy social mediainternet use increased suicide attempts seven studies adjusted ors ranged 103 510 although adjusting cyberbullying victimization sleep disturbance reduced strength association two studies found social mediainternet use versus use may associated fewer suicide attempts studies investigating relationship social mediainternet use completed suicidethere independent association problematic use social mediainternet suicide attempts young people however direction causality remains unclear evaluation longitudinal studies needed