Online Referral and Intervention to Prevent Adolescent and Young Adult Suicide

ORIAS is a randomized controlled trial designed to study the efficacy of the ELIOS system in reducing suicidality in the AYA, reinforcing their motivation to seek help and making them access to care. As ELIOS would be the first suicide prevention system worldwide entirely tailored to the AYA contemporaneous modes of interaction on social media, ORIAS was designed to address the challenge of deciding whether this innovation is worth adding to the current national and international prevention arsenal. While randomized control trials are crucially lacking in the field of suicide prevention, especially on the Internet, the high-level evidence that ORIAS is expected to bring could have a decisive influence on how the French prevention strategies will seize the social media.