TY - JOUR
T1 - Association of Logic’s hip hop song “1 800-273-8255“ with Lifeline calls and suicides in the United States: Interrupted time series analysis
AU - Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas
AU - Tran, Ulrich
AU - Gould, Madelyn
AU - Sinyor, Mark
AU - Sumner, Steven
AU - Strauss, Markus
AU - Voracek, Martin
AU - Till, Benedikt
AU - Murphy, Sean
AU - Gonzalez, Frances
AU - Spittal, Matthew J.
AU - Draper, John
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: No specific funding. MJ Spittal is recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (project No FT180100075) funded by the Australian government. This funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Funding Information:
Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at http://www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/ and declare: MG, TN, and BT had financial support from Vibrant Emotional Health for not directly related work in the same area, which was the basis for development of this research project; MS reports a grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (grant No SRG-0-153-19) for not directly related work in the same area in the past three years; SM, FG, and JD have been employees of Vibrant Emotional Health, the non-profit organisation that administers the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, USA, in the past three years; BT reports consulting fees in the past three years from Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) for not directly related work in the same area; MG reports membership in the Steering and Standards, Training and Practices committees of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline; TN reports being a current board member of the International Association for Suicide Prevention as vice president.
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PY - 2021/12/13
Y1 - 2021/12/13
N2 - OBJECTIVETo assess changes in daily call volumes to the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and in suicides during periods of wide scale public attention to the song "1-800-273-8255" by American hip hop artist Logic.DESIGNTime series analysis.SETTINGUnited States, 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2018.PARTICIPANTSTotal US population. Lifeline calls and suicide data were obtained from Lifeline and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURESDaily Lifeline calls and suicide data before and after the release of the song. Twitter posts were used to estimate the amount and duration of attention the song received. Seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average time series models were fitted to the pre-release period to estimate Lifeline calls and suicides. Models were fitted to the full time series with dummy variables for periods of strong attention to the song.RESULTSIn the 34 day period after the three events with the strongest public attention (the song's release, the MTV Video Music Awards 2017, and Grammy Awards 2018), Lifeline received an excess of 9915 calls (95% confidence interval 6594 to 13 236), an increase of 6.9% (95% confidence interval 4.6% to 9.2%, PCONCLUSIONSLogic's song "1-800-273-8255" was associated with a large increase in calls to Lifeline. A reduction in suicides was observed in the periods with the most social media discourse about the song.
AB - OBJECTIVETo assess changes in daily call volumes to the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and in suicides during periods of wide scale public attention to the song "1-800-273-8255" by American hip hop artist Logic.DESIGNTime series analysis.SETTINGUnited States, 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2018.PARTICIPANTSTotal US population. Lifeline calls and suicide data were obtained from Lifeline and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURESDaily Lifeline calls and suicide data before and after the release of the song. Twitter posts were used to estimate the amount and duration of attention the song received. Seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average time series models were fitted to the pre-release period to estimate Lifeline calls and suicides. Models were fitted to the full time series with dummy variables for periods of strong attention to the song.RESULTSIn the 34 day period after the three events with the strongest public attention (the song's release, the MTV Video Music Awards 2017, and Grammy Awards 2018), Lifeline received an excess of 9915 calls (95% confidence interval 6594 to 13 236), an increase of 6.9% (95% confidence interval 4.6% to 9.2%, PCONCLUSIONSLogic's song "1-800-273-8255" was associated with a large increase in calls to Lifeline. A reduction in suicides was observed in the periods with the most social media discourse about the song.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85122207288
U2 - 10.1136/bmj-2021-067726
DO - 10.1136/bmj-2021-067726
M3 - Article
SN - 0007-1447
VL - 375
SP - e067726
JO - British Medical Journal
JF - British Medical Journal
M1 - 067726
ER -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being