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Saskia Mérelle
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Breaking Down Barriers to a Suicide Prevention Helpline
Protocol for a Web-Based Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: Globally, suicide is among the leading causes of death, with men being more at risk to die from suicide than women. Research suggests that people with suicidal ideation often struggle to find adequate help. Every month, around 4000 people fill in the anonymous self ...
Content-based recommender support system for counselors in a suicide prevention chat helpline
Design and evaluation study
Background: The working environment of a suicide prevention helpline requires high emotional and cognitive awareness from chat counselors. A shared opinion among counselors is that as a chat conversation becomes more difficult, it takes more effort and a longer amount of time ...
Contributed
Suicide prevention is an important global topic, since suicide is being a worldwide serious health issue for decades. In the meantime, people start to pay more attention to mental health issues and Artificial Intelligence is developed and applied in many different fields. Recentl
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Objective: This thesis aided the 113 Suicide Prevention (113), the national suicide prevention center for The Netherlands, by investigating technical solutions for the helpline, implementing an e-learning prototype housing six suicidal personas within a conversational agent model
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