Fig. 1

Participants’ perceptions of the “It Gets Better Austria” videos. The individuals’ perceptions were categorized into perceptions related to the video (e.g., technical aspects, protagonist, content), perceptions more related to themselves, as well as perceptions related to effects on (imagined) suicidal viewers. The perceptions were organized on a scale from positive to negative based on their connotations. Both LGBQ+ youth and experts’ perceptions are shown in the figure, and, where applicable, consent between the two groups is indicated. Categories as shown in the figure are written in italics and marked with “->” in the main body of the manuscript for easy identification of related text