Schotanus-Dijkstra Marijke, Havinga Petra, van Ballegooijen Wouter, Delfosse Lynn, Mokkenstorm Jan, Boon Brigitte
<location>Trimbos Institute, Department of Public Mental Health, Utrecht, the Netherlands</location>
<location>Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands</location>
Crisis. 2014;35(1):27-35. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000225.
Every year, more than six million people lose a loved one through suicide. These bereaved by suicide are at relatively high risk for mental illnesses including suicide. The social stigma attached to suicide often makes it difficult to talk about grief. Participating in online forums may be beneficial for the bereaved by suicide, but it is unknown what they communicate in these forums.
What do the bereaved by suicide communicate in online forums? We examined which self-help mechanisms, grief reactions, and experiences with health-care services they shared online.
We conducted a content analysis of 1,250 messages from 165 members of two Dutch language forums for the bereaved by suicide.
We found that sharing personal experiences featured most prominently in the messages, often with emotional expressions of grief. Other frequently used self-help mechanisms were expressions of support or empathy, providing advice, and universality (recognition), while experiences with health-care services featured only occasionally. Compared with previous studies about online forums for somatic illnesses, the bereaved by suicide communicated more personal experiences and engaged much less in chitchat.
Online forums appear to have relevant additional value as a platform for talking about grief and finding support.
每年有超过600万人因自杀失去亲人。这些自杀 bereaved 者患包括自杀在内的精神疾病的风险相对较高。与自杀相关的社会 stigma 往往使得谈论悲伤变得困难。参与在线论坛可能对自杀 bereaved 者有益，但他们在这些论坛上交流的内容尚不清楚。
自杀 bereaved 者在在线论坛上交流什么？我们研究了他们在网上分享了哪些自助机制、悲伤反应以及与医疗服务的经历。
我们对来自两个荷兰语自杀 bereaved 者论坛的165名成员的1250条信息进行了内容分析。
我们发现，分享个人经历在信息中最为突出，通常伴随着悲伤的情感表达。其他常用的自助机制包括支持或同理心的表达、提供建议和普遍性（认可），而与医疗服务的经历则只是偶尔出现。与之前关于躯体疾病在线论坛的研究相比，自杀 bereaved 者交流了更多的个人经历，闲聊较少。
在线论坛似乎作为一个谈论悲伤和寻求支持的平台具有相关的附加价值。
