No clear evidence of increase in adolescent suicide after '13 Reasons Why'

(Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania) Contrary to the findings of a 2019 study that associated the release of the Netflix series '13 Reasons Why' with an increase in monthly suicide rates among adolescent boys, a reanalysis of the data by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds no evidence of contagion. The reanalysis, published today in PLOS ONE, found that after controlling for the dramatic increase in adolescent suicide in recent years, the show's release had no clear effect.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news