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From: Perceptions of LGBQ+ youth and experts of suicide prevention video messages targeting LGBQ+ youth: qualitative study

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Factors identified by participants to be influencing their perceptions of the videos. Influencing factors were categorized into code families either related to the viewer (his or her current life situation, circumstances while watching, and emotional state) or to the video (production aspects and factors relevant to identification with the specific narrative). With regard to production aspects, the quality of videos and the setting were considered important. With regard to factors relevant for identification, aspects of the featured protagonist and the specific personal narrative were deemed relevant. In particular, the narrative was better perceived if it was structured in a coherent and comprehensible way, and if it covered details of lived experience. Sympathy for the protagonist, his or her external appearance and perceptions of his or her character, resonance with the current life situation as portrayed in the video, his or her language and age as well as a positive mood were further relevant factors for identification

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