Leaune Edouard, Rouzé Héloïse, Lestienne Laurène, Bislimi Kushtrim, Morgiève Margot, Chalancon Benoit, Lau-Taï Pauline, Vaiva Guillaume, Grandgenèvre Pierre, Haesebaert Julie, Poulet Emmanuel
Research on Healthcare Performance RESHAPE, INSERM U1290, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
Center for Suicide Prevention, Centre Hospitalier le Vinatier, 95, Boulevard Pinel, 69500, BRON, France.
BMC Psychiatry. 2024 Apr 23;24(1):306. doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-05761-9.
According to recent research, the Internet and social media are shaping and changing how we die and mourn. However, the use of social media after bereavement by suicide remains poorly understood. Thus, emerging research is needed to better assess the role that social media can play after bereavement by suicide. The objective of our study was to evaluate the use of social media in French people bereaved by suicide and to assess their expectations toward social media.
We conducted a national cross-sectional online survey including French people bereaved by suicide assessing their use of social media after the death of their relative. All adults bereaved by suicide were eligible to participate in the study. An online 26-item questionnaire collected sociodemographic and loss-related characteristics and evaluated four dimensions: (1) the use of social media in daily life, (2) the perceived needs regarding suicide bereavement, (3) the use of social media associated with the suicide loss, and (4) the expectations regarding the development of an online resource for people bereaved by suicide and proposals regarding the development of such a resource.
Among 401 participants, 61.6% reported using social media after the death of their relative by suicide, especially those recently bereaved, those receiving counseling and bereaved parents. The participants mainly used social media to reach peers bereaved by suicide and to memorialize, while they expected social media to help them finding information on suicide and accessing bereaved peers. Younger participants were more prone to use social media to memorialize, while bereaved partners and those bereaved by the suicide of a parent were less prone to use them with such aim.
A large part of people bereaved by suicide use social media for their grief process, mainly to contact peers bereaved by suicide and to memorialize their loved one. According to or results, social media contributes to contemporary grief processes after suicide bereavement and can be seen as putative means to improve the well-being of people bereaved by suicide.
根据最近的研究,互联网和社交媒体正在塑造和改变我们面对死亡及哀悼的方式。然而,对于自杀 bereavement 后社交媒体的使用情况仍知之甚少。因此,需要开展新的研究以更好地评估社交媒体在自杀 bereavement 后所能发挥的作用。我们研究的目的是评估社交媒体在因自杀而 bereaved 的法国人中的使用情况,并评估他们对社交媒体的期望。
我们进行了一项全国性的横断面在线调查,对象为因自杀而 bereaved 的法国人,评估他们在亲人去世后对社交媒体的使用情况。所有因自杀而 bereaved 的成年人都有资格参与该研究。一份包含 26 个项目的在线问卷收集了社会人口学和与丧亲相关的特征,并评估了四个维度:(1)日常生活中社交媒体的使用情况;(2)对自杀 bereavement 的感知需求;(3)与自杀丧亲相关的社交媒体使用情况;(4)对为因自杀而 bereaved 的人开发在线资源的期望以及关于此类资源开发的建议。
在 401 名参与者中,61.6%报告在其亲人自杀去世后使用了社交媒体,尤其是那些近期丧亲者、接受咨询者以及丧亲的父母。参与者主要利用社交媒体与因自杀而 bereaved 的同龄人取得联系并进行纪念,同时他们期望社交媒体能帮助他们获取有关自杀的信息并接触到丧亲的同龄人。较年轻的参与者更倾向于利用社交媒体进行纪念,而丧亲的伴侣以及因父母自杀而丧亲的人则不太倾向于出于此类目的使用社交媒体。
很大一部分因自杀而 bereaved 的人在其悲伤过程中使用社交媒体,主要是为了联系因自杀而 bereaved 的同龄人并纪念他们所爱的人。根据我们的研究结果,社交媒体在自杀 bereavement 后的当代悲伤过程中发挥着作用,并且可以被视为改善因自杀而 bereaved 的人幸福感的一种可能手段。