Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Prevention Kit

Post by tester89 » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 3:06 PM UTC

codingdave wrote: post #39

caslon wrote: post #31

> But there are a few problems with this. The keyword lists always have glaring omissions. Millions of young adults can still easily find dangerous content, such as tips on how to self-harm or kill themselves. This is an incredibly condescending worldview. If a person's going to commit suicide, allowing them to find methods that aren't likely to fail or cause extreme amounts of pain is incredibly important. By interr…

Lives are saved by not having easy information on how to commit suicide. When you talk to suicidal teens, often the reason they seek help is because they don't have a workable plan. So putting these roadblocks in their way drives them to seek help instead of making and carrying out plans. This is basic safety, like locking away knives and medication - don't help them plan.

Post by Twounwhe » Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 8:56 PM UTC

robertrmorris wrote: post #49

Twounwhe wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We follow-up 5hrs later and ask general questions about their experience with the life line. > If they are experiencing self harm, in addition to crisis lines, we offer them a single-session online intervention on managing sh. For that, we see significant improvements pre vs post on measures like “self-hatred”, and “desire to stop selfharm”, with medium effect sizes (.4-.8 cohen’s d). Very hard to show enduring eff…

Good questions. And your experience makes a lot of sense. Ideally, we would see positive changes persist over many time points (and so we aren't measuring immediately before self-harming and immediately after). I'd be really grateful if you tried it provided some feedback for us: https://join.kokocares.org/koko-referral-lifelines?source=hn Scroll to the bottom to try the "managing self-harm" mini course. It only take…