Detecting Suicidal Ideation on Forums: Proof-of-Concept Study.

Ahmet Emre Aladağ Serra Muderrisoglu Naz Berfu Akbas Oguzhan Zahmacioglu Haluk O Bingol

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2018)

This study demonstrated that it is possible to detect people with suicidal ideation on online forums with high accuracy. The logistic regression classifier in this study can potentially be embedded on blogs and forums to make the decision to offer real-time online counseling in case a suicidal post is being written.

Keyphrases

social media
health information
healthcare
depressive symptoms
smoking cessation
hiv infected
antiretroviral therapy