Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1724974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Niederkrotenthaler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Niederkrotenthaler |
| SIGNATURE | NIEDERKROTENTHALER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9550-628X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Animated Media Content and the Papageno Effect
Suicide-related media portrayals can exert both harmful and protective effects on suicide-related outcomes, with the Papageno effect describing suicide-preventive influences of coping-oriented portrayals. Adult animated series have largely been absent from research, despite animation's popularity and its distinctive capacity to externalize psychological states, rendering experiences of mental health crises and recovery particularly accessible to …
Content analysis of Austrian and German newspaper coverage of terrorist attacks in light of recommendations for reporting on mass shootings
Media coverage of terrorist attacks can have harmful effects on public mental health. Media recommendations for reporting on mass shootings have been developed, which also appear relevant to coverage of terrorist attacks. However, it remains unclear whether journalists adhere to them. The authors investigated the quality of N = 1,909 articles about nine terrorist attacks in Western Europe between 2016–2020 published in Austrian and German daily n…
Media portrayals of assisted suicide before, during, and after legalization changes
This content analysis revealed distinct patterns in media reporting on AS and showed that reports were less aligned with media guidelines than previous analyses on non-assisted suicide. Some patterns identified across all time periods, particularly tendencies to stigmatize or romanticize AS before the legislation, likely reflect polarized public attitudes, which warrant attention in education efforts. This research highlights the importance of sp…
Popular music and the Papageno effect
Media portrayals of overcoming suicidal crises can beneficially contribute to suicide prevention, a phenomenon termed the Papageno effect. The present study ( N = 322) is the first to utilize an experimental design to investigate the possible suicide-preventive impact of popular music. The participants listened either to three songs with explicit suicide-preventive messages (intervention group) or three matched songs from the same artists without…
Exploring media responses to terrorist attacks
This study investigates the types of mitigation strategies discussed in news reports about terrorist attacks (TAs) in German and Austrian newspapers, examining the differences between security- and surveillance-related (SSR) and restrictive migration-control strategies versus community-bonding and deradicalization strategies. A content analysis of N = 1514 articles on nine TAs in Western Europe since 2016 examines which characteristics of the att…
Social media influencers and the Papageno effect
The media can elicit detrimental and beneficial effects on suicide-related outcomes. Although the bulk of the available evidence focuses on detrimental imitative effects, more recent studies have also investigated the media's preventive potential, especially when focusing on stories of hope, healing, and recovery. Previous studies on this suicide-protective impact, termed the Papageno effect, have often focused on legacy media, such as newspapers…
Jelena Dokic's suicide-related social media post and the worldwide media's portrayal of a story of survival
Objective: Coverage and public communication about suicide represent a major public health concern given the potential for identification and imitation. Yet when celebrities survive a suicidal crisis, it presents an opportunity to model adaptive coping. Tennis star Jelena Dokic's June 2022 Instagram post recounting her experience overcoming suicidal thoughts represents a unique natural experiment to characterize media coverage of a celebrity surv…
Suicide rates in South Korea and internationally following release of the Netflix series 'Squid Game
The Role of the Narrative in Educative Suicide Awareness Materials
There has been a debate about the suitability of different narratives in educative suicide prevention materials. Whereas some suicide prevention experts recommend raising awareness of suicide by highlighting its prevalence, others argue that this approach may normalize suicide and advocate focusing on help resources instead. Unfortunately, empirical evidence regarding this question is lacking. This randomized controlled trial aimed to test the im…
Experiences of suicide survivors of sharing their stories about suicidality and overcoming a crisis in media and public talks
Sharing a personal story of hope and recovery may have a beneficial impact on the storytellers. Storytelling requires a careful preparation and training before going public and support and guidance is crucial in all stages of the storytelling, particularly to help unexperienced storytellers in going public and using their personal narratives to help prevent suicide
Facilitators and barriers to implementation of suicide prevention interventions
We know that suicide is preventable, yet hundreds of thousands of people still die due to suicide every year. Many interventions were proven to be effective, and dozens of others showed promising results. However, translating these interventions into new settings brings several challenges. One of the crucial obstacles to success is not anticipating possible barriers to implementation nor enhancing possible benefits of factors facilitating the imp…
Effects of gatekeeper trainings from the Austrian national suicide prevention program
The SUPRA gatekeeper training had some beneficial effects in the short- and longterm, with effect sizes comparable to established gatekeeper trainings
Collective emotions during the Covid-19 outbreak
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world's population to unprecedented health threats and changes to social life. High uncertainty about the novel disease and its social and economic consequences, together with increasingly stringent governmental measures against the spread of the virus, likely elicited strong emotional responses. We analyzed the digital traces of emotional expressions in tweets during 5 weeks after the start of outbreaks in 1…
Youth voices and experiences regarding a school-based cognitive behavioral therapy skills intervention
Mental health literacy incorporating CBT is a promising population-based health promotion intervention. Future adaptations and implementation decisions regarding the CBTSI need to address the wishes and experiences of these youth. Youth voice in this study explored factors that prevent and promote the uptake of the key lessons within the context of existing variability in student mental health that is often found within the context of a regular c…
Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic
The Impact of Educative News Articles about Suicide Prevention
Media stories featuring stories of personal experiences of coping with suicidal ideation have been shown to decrease suicide risk, but it is unclear whether more impersonal awareness materials have similar effects. This study aimed to test the impact of impersonal educative news articles featuring interviews with suicide prevention experts. Because the impact of news articles may be determined by the articles’ pull quotes and headlines, we also a…
‘We’re going around the subject’ improving sex education and adolescents’ awareness of sexually transmitted infections
Relatively few studies have identified the means to improve the quality of sex education in schools. This study aimed to qualitatively investigate whether sex education in Austria facilitates the development of adolescent sexuality and awareness of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and highlights practical ideas that could help achieve a comprehensive form of sex education in schools. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with amaximum v…
Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide
Suicide risk and prevention during the Covid-19 pandemic
Perceptions of LGBQ+ youth and experts of suicide prevention video messages targeting LGBQ+ youth
Young people and experts view the videos as helpful and relevant, but identified several strategies to better tailor them to the needs of LGBTQ+ adolescents, including suicidal peers. The insights gained are useful to the increasing number of suicide prevention projects using personal narratives of coping delivered via media to help prevent suicide
Adolescents’ Perspective on Their Sexual Knowledge and the Role of School in Addressing Emotions in Sex Education
Sex education for adolescents should include building knowledge on the emotional, social and physical aspects of sexuality. This study aimed to find out how adolescents from two different school types perceived their own knowledge on sexual matters, the importance they placed on sex education in school, and how well they felt that emotional, social and physical issues were raised within the frame of sex education. A cross-sectional 74-item questi…
Labour market marginalisation among refugees from different countries of birth
BACKGROUND: The aim was to elucidate if the risk of labour market marginalisation (LMM), measured as long-term unemployment, long-term sickness absence, disability pension and a combined measure of these three measures, differed between refugees and non-refugee migrants with different regions of birth compared with native Swedes. METHODS: All non-pensioned individuals aged 19-60 years who were resident in Sweden on 31 December 2009 were included …
The role of language in suicide reporting
Labour-market marginalisation after mental disorders among young natives and immigrants living in Sweden
Mental disorders were associated with all three measures of labour-market marginalisation, strongest with subsequent disability pension. Native Swedes had higher risk estimates for both disability pension and sickness absence, but lower risk estimates for unemployment than immigrants. Previous labour-market attachment explained a great part of the association between immigrant status and subsequent labour-market marginalisation
Blurred world view
Previous studies suggest that distorted representations of reality on television can lead to distorted perceptions of reality among viewers. In this study, 322 individuals in Austria reported their weekly television consumption and whether they believe that there is active practice of capital punishment in Austria, which has been abolished since 1968. The more television participants watched, the more likely they mistakenly believed that there is…
Copycat effects after media reports on suicide
Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide
Exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity, and the risks of attempted and completed suicide in offspring
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of parental risk factors for suicidal behaviour in offspring, but research on variations in their effects with offspring's age at first exposure is sparse. AIMS: To explore the effects of age at exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity on the risks of suicide and attempted suicide in offspring. METHODS: This was a case-control study effected through record linkage between Swedish registers. Individuals…
Adolescents’ Perspective on Their Sexual Knowledge and the Role of School in Addressing Emotions in Sex Education
Sex education for adolescents should include building knowledge on the emotional, social and physical aspects of sexuality. This study aimed to find out how adolescents from two different school types perceived their own knowledge on sexual matters, the importance they placed on sex education in school, and how well they felt that emotional, social and physical issues were raised within the frame of sex education. A cross-sectional 74-item questi…
Labour market marginalisation among refugees from different countries of birth
BACKGROUND: The aim was to elucidate if the risk of labour market marginalisation (LMM), measured as long-term unemployment, long-term sickness absence, disability pension and a combined measure of these three measures, differed between refugees and non-refugee migrants with different regions of birth compared with native Swedes. METHODS: All non-pensioned individuals aged 19-60 years who were resident in Sweden on 31 December 2009 were included …
The role of language in suicide reporting
Personal Suicidality in Reception and Identification With Suicidal Film Characters
The authors investigated the impact of suicidality on identity work during film exposure. Adults with low suicidality (n = 150) watched either It's My Party or The Fire Within, censored versions of these films not depicting the suicide, or the control film that concluded with a non-suicidal death. Baseline suicidality was measured with questionnaires before the movie. Identity work and identification with the protagonist were measured after the m…
Social media influencers and the Papageno effect
The media can elicit detrimental and beneficial effects on suicide-related outcomes. Although the bulk of the available evidence focuses on detrimental imitative effects, more recent studies have also investigated the media's preventive potential, especially when focusing on stories of hope, healing, and recovery. Previous studies on this suicide-protective impact, termed the Papageno effect, have often focused on legacy media, such as newspapers…
Blurred world view
Previous studies suggest that distorted representations of reality on television can lead to distorted perceptions of reality among viewers. In this study, 322 individuals in Austria reported their weekly television consumption and whether they believe that there is active practice of capital punishment in Austria, which has been abolished since 1968. The more television participants watched, the more likely they mistakenly believed that there is…
Sociable, Mentally Disturbed Women and Angry, Rejected Men
Predictors of Suicide and Suicide Attempt in Subway Stations
Copycat effects after media reports on suicide
Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide
BACKGROUND: Media reporting of suicide has repeatedly been shown to trigger suicidal behaviour. Few studies have investigated the associations between specific media content and suicide rates. Even less is known about the possible preventive effects of suicide-related media content. AIMS: To test the hypotheses that certain media content is associated with an increase in suicide, suggesting a so-called Werther effect, and that other content is as…
Development of a practical tool to measure the impact of publications on the society based on focus group discussions with scientists
Focus group discussions with scientists suggested that the societal impact factor of a publication should consider the effect of the publication in a wide set of non-scientific areas, but also the motivation behind the publication, and efforts by the authors to translate their findings. The proposed tool provides some valuable insights for further research and practical applications in the topic area
Suicide rates in the national and expatriate population in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
BACKGROUND: Reports on suicide from the Gulf region are scarce. Dubai is a city with a large expatriate population. However, total and gender-specific suicide rates for the national and expatriate populations are not known. AIMS: To investigate total and gender-specific suicide rates in the national and expatriate population in Dubai and to elicit socio-demographic characteristics of suicide victims. METHODS: Registered suicides in Dubai from 200…
Predictors of Suicide and Suicide Attempt in Subway Stations
Personal Suicidality in Reception and Identification With Suicidal Film Characters
The authors investigated the impact of suicidality on identity work during film exposure. Adults with low suicidality (n = 150) watched either It's My Party or The Fire Within, censored versions of these films not depicting the suicide, or the control film that concluded with a non-suicidal death. Baseline suicidality was measured with questionnaires before the movie. Identity work and identification with the protagonist were measured after the m…
Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide
Exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity, and the risks of attempted and completed suicide in offspring
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of parental risk factors for suicidal behaviour in offspring, but research on variations in their effects with offspring's age at first exposure is sparse. AIMS: To explore the effects of age at exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity on the risks of suicide and attempted suicide in offspring. METHODS: This was a case-control study effected through record linkage between Swedish registers. Individuals…
Sociable, Mentally Disturbed Women and Angry, Rejected Men
Music and Suicidality
In recent years, the question whether personal suicidality is reflected in individual music preferences has been discussed. We assessed associations of preferred music genres and cumulative exposure to and rating of 50 preselected songs, including 25 suicide-related songs, with suicide risk factors in an online survey with 943 participants. Preferences for sad music were associated with high psychoticism, while fanship of music genres with predom…
Blurred world view
Previous studies suggest that distorted representations of reality on television can lead to distorted perceptions of reality among viewers. In this study, 322 individuals in Austria reported their weekly television consumption and whether they believe that there is active practice of capital punishment in Austria, which has been abolished since 1968. The more television participants watched, the more likely they mistakenly believed that there is…
Labour-market marginalisation after mental disorders among young natives and immigrants living in Sweden
Mental disorders were associated with all three measures of labour-market marginalisation, strongest with subsequent disability pension. Native Swedes had higher risk estimates for both disability pension and sickness absence, but lower risk estimates for unemployment than immigrants. Previous labour-market attachment explained a great part of the association between immigrant status and subsequent labour-market marginalisation
The role of language in suicide reporting
Labour market marginalisation among refugees from different countries of birth
BACKGROUND: The aim was to elucidate if the risk of labour market marginalisation (LMM), measured as long-term unemployment, long-term sickness absence, disability pension and a combined measure of these three measures, differed between refugees and non-refugee migrants with different regions of birth compared with native Swedes. METHODS: All non-pensioned individuals aged 19-60 years who were resident in Sweden on 31 December 2009 were included …
Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide
Suicide risk and prevention during the Covid-19 pandemic
Perceptions of LGBQ+ youth and experts of suicide prevention video messages targeting LGBQ+ youth
Young people and experts view the videos as helpful and relevant, but identified several strategies to better tailor them to the needs of LGBTQ+ adolescents, including suicidal peers. The insights gained are useful to the increasing number of suicide prevention projects using personal narratives of coping delivered via media to help prevent suicide
Adolescents’ Perspective on Their Sexual Knowledge and the Role of School in Addressing Emotions in Sex Education
Sex education for adolescents should include building knowledge on the emotional, social and physical aspects of sexuality. This study aimed to find out how adolescents from two different school types perceived their own knowledge on sexual matters, the importance they placed on sex education in school, and how well they felt that emotional, social and physical issues were raised within the frame of sex education. A cross-sectional 74-item questi…
Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic
The Impact of Educative News Articles about Suicide Prevention
Media stories featuring stories of personal experiences of coping with suicidal ideation have been shown to decrease suicide risk, but it is unclear whether more impersonal awareness materials have similar effects. This study aimed to test the impact of impersonal educative news articles featuring interviews with suicide prevention experts. Because the impact of news articles may be determined by the articles’ pull quotes and headlines, we also a…
‘We’re going around the subject’ improving sex education and adolescents’ awareness of sexually transmitted infections
Relatively few studies have identified the means to improve the quality of sex education in schools. This study aimed to qualitatively investigate whether sex education in Austria facilitates the development of adolescent sexuality and awareness of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and highlights practical ideas that could help achieve a comprehensive form of sex education in schools. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with amaximum v…
Collective emotions during the Covid-19 outbreak
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world's population to unprecedented health threats and changes to social life. High uncertainty about the novel disease and its social and economic consequences, together with increasingly stringent governmental measures against the spread of the virus, likely elicited strong emotional responses. We analyzed the digital traces of emotional expressions in tweets during 5 weeks after the start of outbreaks in 1…
Youth voices and experiences regarding a school-based cognitive behavioral therapy skills intervention
Mental health literacy incorporating CBT is a promising population-based health promotion intervention. Future adaptations and implementation decisions regarding the CBTSI need to address the wishes and experiences of these youth. Youth voice in this study explored factors that prevent and promote the uptake of the key lessons within the context of existing variability in student mental health that is often found within the context of a regular c…
Facilitators and barriers to implementation of suicide prevention interventions
We know that suicide is preventable, yet hundreds of thousands of people still die due to suicide every year. Many interventions were proven to be effective, and dozens of others showed promising results. However, translating these interventions into new settings brings several challenges. One of the crucial obstacles to success is not anticipating possible barriers to implementation nor enhancing possible benefits of factors facilitating the imp…
Effects of gatekeeper trainings from the Austrian national suicide prevention program
The SUPRA gatekeeper training had some beneficial effects in the short- and longterm, with effect sizes comparable to established gatekeeper trainings
Medicine (22 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (20 works) · Suicide prevention (19 works) · Poison control (18 works) · Medical emergency (13 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Injury prevention (9 works)