title: [Do individuals with substance use disorders find information for crisis intervention and suicide prevention resources on the Internet?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Suicidality is an important issue for substance-dependent people. The few studies about Internet searches have provided ambiguous results regarding help and support using suicide-related terms.
  
  
  METHODS
  Five popular search engines and several substance use- and suicide-related German search terms were used; the search results were classified as being pro-suicide, anti-suicide, suicide-neutral, websites not associated with suicide or "page could not be loaded".
  
  
  RESULTS
  The majority of identified websites was not associated with suicide at all, whereas websites offering help and support were less frequent. Using suicide-associated search terms (such as "Selbsttötung") almost half of all web pages were help sites. Websites with instructions for committing suicide were very rarely found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In view of the difficulties for substance abusers to get immediate and adequate information about help and support in a suicidal crisis via the Internet, it is urgently necessary to extend fast available help sites on the Internet.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum der Psychiatrie, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Goethe-Universität, Heinrich-Hoffmann-Straße 10, 60528, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland. B.Schneider@em.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fritze
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Georgi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grebner
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
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