From: The use of social media after bereavement by suicide: results from a French online survey
Use | Expectations | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Reasons/expectations | n | % | n | % |
Reaching peers | 189 | 76.5 | 176 | 71.3 |
Receiving support from peers | 91 | 36.8 | 113 | 45.7 |
Accessing testimonies of peers | 137 | 55.5 | 144 | 58.3 |
Chating with peers | 116 | 47.0 | 127 | 51.4 |
Finding information | 122 | 49.4 | 198 | 80.2 |
Finding information on suicide | 96 | 38.9 | 158 | 64.0 |
Finding information on suicide bereavement | 102 | 41.3 | 167 | 67.6 |
Finding were to access counseling | 15 | 6.1 | 122 | 49.4 |
Reaching professionals | 10 | 4.0 | 148 | 59.9 |
Receiving online counseling | 3 | 1.2 | 63 | 25.5 |
Chating with a mental health professional | 10 | 4.0 | 145 | 58.7 |
Memorialize his/her loved one | 144 | 58.3 | 121 | 49.0 |
Honoring the memory of his/her relative | 144 | 58.3 | 121 | 49.0 |
Announcing the death | 98 | 39.7 | - | - |