de la Torre Isabel, Castillo Gema, Arambarri Jon, López-Coronado Miguel, Franco Manuel A
Department of Signal Theory and Communications, and Telematics Engineering, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
VirtualWare Labs Foundation, Bilbao, Spain.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2017 Oct 10;5(10):e130. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.8036.
The best manner to prevent suicide is to recognize suicidal signs and signals, and know how to respond to them.
We aim to study the existing mobile apps for suicide prevention in the literature and the most commonly used virtual stores.
Two reviews were carried out. The first was done by searching the most commonly used commercial app stores, which are iTunes and Google Play. The second was a review of mobile health (mHealth) apps in published articles within the last 10 years in the following 7 scientific databases: Science Direct, Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, The Cochrane Library, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar.
A total of 124 apps related to suicide were found in the cited virtual stores but only 20 apps were specifically designed for suicide prevention. All apps were free and most were designed for Android. Furthermore, 6 relevant papers were found in the indicated scientific databases; in these studies, some real experiences with physicians, caregivers, and families were described. The importance of these people in suicide prevention was indicated.
The number of apps regarding suicide prevention is small, and there was little information available from literature searches, indicating that technology-based suicide prevention remains understudied. Many of the apps provided no interactive features. It is important to verify the accuracy of the results of different apps that are available on iOS and Android. The confidence generated by these apps can benefit end users, either by improving their health monitoring or simply to verify their body condition.
预防自杀的最佳方式是识别自杀迹象和信号，并知道如何应对这些情况。
我们旨在研究文献中现有的预防自杀移动应用程序以及最常用的虚拟商店。
进行了两项综述。第一项通过搜索最常用的商业应用商店iTunes和谷歌应用商店来完成。第二项是对过去10年内在以下7个科学数据库中发表的文章中的移动健康（mHealth）应用程序进行综述：科学Direct、医学索引、心理学文摘数据库、荷兰医学文摘数据库、考克兰图书馆、电气与电子工程师协会数据库以及谷歌学术搜索。
在所引用的虚拟商店中总共发现了124个与自杀相关的应用程序，但只有20个应用程序是专门为预防自杀而设计的。所有应用程序都是免费的，并且大多数是为安卓系统设计的。此外，在指定的科学数据库中发现了6篇相关论文；在这些研究中，描述了一些医生、护理人员和家庭的实际经历。指出了这些人在预防自杀中的重要性。
关于预防自杀的应用程序数量较少，并且从文献搜索中获得的信息也很少，这表明基于技术的自杀预防仍未得到充分研究。许多应用程序没有提供交互式功能。核实iOS和安卓系统上不同应用程序结果的准确性很重要。这些应用程序所产生的信心可以使终端用户受益，无论是通过改善他们的健康监测还是仅仅用于核实他们的身体状况。
