According to Suicide.org, a suicide prevention charity, "pro-suicide websites, groups, and bulletin-boards continue to expand".
Subsequently, over the past couple of months, I've scoured the internet and pored over countless websites, groups, and message boards in search of answers and validation.
The sample were 70 undergraduate PE students who were assigned to two groups, one of which used the class blog (Group A, N = 35) and the other one the website (Group B, N = 35), both for 11 weeks.
The participants in the Website groups reported better Enablement than the ones in the no website group.
Enablement and Subjects Global Assessment of relief (SGA) were significantly improved in the Regul8 groups compared to the non-website group at 12 weeks (Enablement = 0 in 56.8% of No website group, 18.4% website, 10.5% Website + support, p = 0.001) (SGA; 32.4% responders in No website group, 45.7% website group, 63.2% website + support group, p = 0.035).
However, there was a statistically significant difference seen in the IBS SSS for the website at 6 weeks, with the 'no website' group having a lower IBS SSS score than the website groups, but this difference disappeared by 12 weeks.
In the website groups, there was significantly increased Enablement at 6 and 12 weeks and a significantly more participants scored Subjective Assessment of Global relief (SGA) as improved at 12 weeks compared to the No Website group.
Improved Enablement suggests patients with access to the Regul8 website felt better able to cope with their symptoms than the non-website group.
However, there was a statistically significant difference seen in the IBS SSS for the website, with the no website group having a lower IBS SSS score than the website groups (IBS SSS no website =162.8 955% CI 137.4-188.3), website 197.0 172.4 - 221.77), Website + telephone support 208.0 (183.1-233.0) p = 0.037).
The participants in the website groups had better scores than the no website group, indicating that the participants who had access to the website rated their overall IBS symptom relief as significantly better than the individuals who had no access to the website.
