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Over 50 years of research has shown limited success in preventing suicide. Perhaps one of the reasons is a focus on identifying “who” is at risk but not “when” they are at the highest risk of self-harm. A potential solution to this problem is to develop methods for identifying warning signs through the use of personalized digital traces from internet searches.
Purpose
The searchlight SearchLight study aims to gather the internal thoughts and state of mind of an individual at risk by studying their personal online seeking behaviour. The goal is to learn real-world risk factors of self-harm by analyzing online web searches that were made during a prior suicide attempt.
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