Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigating Mental Health, COVID-19 Health Beliefs, and News Media Consumption in the United States Population in the Year 2020.

Autor:	Lueck JA; Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA., Callaghan T; Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA., Scherr S; Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Omega [Omega (Westport)] 2024 Feb; Vol. 88 (3), pp. 1168-1180. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 18.
DOI:	10.1177/00302228211062361
Abstrakt:	This study examines the role of general news media consumption during COVID-19 in aggravating mental health and suicide risk in the US population. In a sample of U.S. adults ( N = 5,010), we investigated how mental health, COVID-19 health beliefs, and general news consumption influenced the odds of suicidal ideation using hierarchical logistic regression models. Both worsening mental health overall and specifically in regard to COVID-19 increased suicidal ideation. Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection did not increase suicidal ideation, yet higher levels of COVID-19 self-efficacy reduced suicidal ideation. Overall news consumption did not affect suicidal ideation, but media-specific post-hoc analyses revealed that TV news watching decreased suicidal ideation as much as high levels of COVID-19 self-efficacy decreased suicidal ideation. Furthermore, online news consumption increased suicidal ideation as much as worsening mental health overall increased suicidal ideation. Further implications are discussed. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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