Assoc.-Prof. PD. Dr.med.univ. Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Ph.D., M.M.Sc.Unit Suicide Research & Mental Health Promotion
Center for Public Health (Department of Social and Preventive Medicine)
Position: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0001-9550-628X
T +43 1 40160 34611
thomas.niederkrotenthaler@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Communications Media; Health Promotion; Mass Media; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Suicide
Research group(s)
- Unit Suicide Research & Mental Health Promotion
Head: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Research Area: epidemiology, causes and influencing factors as well as the prevention of suicidal behaviour and mental illness
Members: - Wiener Werkstätte for Suicide Research
Members:
Research interests
My main research areas are suicide prevention research;Werther and Papageno effects; suicide epidemiology;labour market marginalization and suicidal behaviour; mentalhealthservices; and mental health promotion.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
Content analysis, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional analysis, RCTs
Grants
- Effects of "It Gets Better Videos" for LGBQ Adolescents (2017)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Stand alone projects
Principal Investigator - Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements (PSAs) Targeting Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2017)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Programme Clinical Research (KLIF)
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- Till, B. et al., 2017. Beneficial and harmful effects of educative suicide prevention websites: randomised controlled trial exploring Papageno v. Werther effects. British Journal of Psychiatry, 211(02), pp.109-115. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.115.177394.
- Niederkrotenthaler, T. et al., 2016. Predictors of psychological improvement on non-professional suicide message boards: content analysis. Psychological Medicine, 46(16), pp.3429-3442. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003329171600221X.
- Niederkrotenthaler, T. et al., 2014. Increasing Help-Seeking and Referrals for Individuals at Risk for Suicide by Decreasing Stigma. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47(3), pp.S235-S243. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2014.06.010.
- Niederkrotenthaler, T. et al., 2014. Future risk of labour market marginalization in young suicide attempters--a population-based prospective cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 43(5), pp.1520-1530. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyu155.
- Niederkrotenthaler, T. et al., 2010. Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effects. British Journal of Psychiatry, 197(03), pp.234-243. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.109.074633.