Suicide in young people from cyber bullying: A Systematic Review
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Cyberbullying is a leading cause of ongoing suicides in adolescents. The study of incidence, impact, related factors and guidelines for risk assessment. Are /extremely important for monitoring and prevention. This systematic review aimed to gather evidences of adolescent suicide result from cyberbullying both published and unpublished in Thai and English conducted between 2014 and 2020 by Google scholar database, CINAHL, Scopus, Science direct, and the Thai thesis database. Eligible reviews had to follow the systematic review guidelines of the Joan Briggs Institute to select both qualitative and quantitative research, according to the research evaluation form and selection criteria developed by the researcher. A total of 279 researches relating to suicide among adolescents from cyberbullying 10 qualitative studies and 2 quantitative studies met inclusion criteria.
The findings of this systematic review revealed that; 1) the incidence of Cyberbullying is most commonly occurred between the ages of 10-19 years old. 1 in 3 teens have been victims of cyberbullying by gossiping, abusing, female bullying in an attack, threatening, and sexual harassment, recorded and disseminated online in a malicious manner. 2) The impact of teenagers being victims of cyberbullying is statistically significant to suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, the occurrence of depression, anxiety and other mental health problems including substance abuse. The prevalence of risk, thoughts and attempted suicides cause of cyberattack depends on the severity of cyberbullying. 3) The related factors including age, nationality and gender. There are reported that the older teenagers have higher suicide, white students were more likely to attempt suicide and females are more victims of violence than males. And 4) the most commonly used cyberbullying assessment consist of Young Internet Addiction Test (YIAT), Young’s Diagnostic Questionnaire (YDQ), Chen Internet Addiction Scale, the Korean Internet Addiction and Social Networking Sites (SNS).
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