Re:Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Preve...
by robertrmorris on Saturday March 26, 2022 @11:38PM
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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 takes 7-8min and there is a spot for feedback at the end.
Re:Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Preve...
by Twounwhe on Thursday March 31, 2022 @04:56PM
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Thanks for the reply.
When I click on the "managing self-harm" course, I only see a "form.typeform.com refused to connect" error. Seems this is because I'm using tor, which is the only way I'd feel comfortable legitimately using the service. Would be nice if there were a way to use the service via tor.
I did complete the course. All the negativity coupled with "it's easy!!" made me feel worse, but sounds like I'm an outlier. Is there a reason there are no positive statements in the course, like "I think I'm a good person"?
> 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 effects for this, however.
Are you measuring in such a way that you can realistically determine which effects are due to the online intervention and which are due to the SH itself? I ask because after SH, especially a few hours later, I consistently have increased "desire to stop selfharm", and lessened "self-hatred". SH has that effect on me, hence its unfortunate use as a coping mechanism.