Blogs brasileiros sobre suicídio

Abstract

Introduction: Suicidal behavior is an internet wide spread complex topic. Some websites support it; others are against it. Objective: To analyze the content of Brazilian blogs about suicide. Method: This is a descriptive-exploratory study. Blogs against and in favor of suicide were collected through Google. The criteria for the search included Brazilian blogs with more than one post about suicide, those with frequent posts about suicide in a year and blogs with posts until December 2014. Computer-mediated discourse analysis was used to analyze the sample. Results: Five blogs supporting suicide and five against were identified with features related to the levels of computer-mediated discourse analysis. Blogs against suicide present higher time of activity, higher number of messages, higher diversity regarding social networks connectivity, higher visits. They also include profile descriptions and use of real names in comparison with blogs supporting suicide. Conclusion: Internet holds relevant content that allows investigating risk factors and protection against suicide as well as the development of online prevention strategies.