Project Summary
The goal of this project is to identify indicators of proximal suicide risk in search log data. Participants have been recruited online and have donated both retrospective and prospective search log data while being followed in the prospective period for indicators of suicidal ideation and behavior. The informatics component involves using neural embeddings to represent both searches and terms relating to empirically validated warning signs of suicide risk as a means of detecting periods of elevated risk.
This project is being co-led by Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH from the University of Washington and also includes faculty member Courtney Bagge, PhD from the University of Michigan.