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Quality of media reporting following a celebrity suicide in India.
Menon, Vikas; Kar, Sujita Kumar; Varadharajan, Natarajan; Kaliamoorthy, Charanya; Pattnaik, Jigyansa Ipsita; Sharma, Ginni; Mukherjee, Srijeeta; Shirahatti, Nikhilesh B; Ransing, Ramdas; Padhy, Susanta Kumar; Arafat, S M Yasir.
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  • Menon V; Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry 605006, India.
  • Kar SK; Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Varadharajan N; Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry 605006, India.
  • Kaliamoorthy C; Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry 605006, India.
  • Pattnaik JI; Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar 751019, Odisha, India.
  • Sharma G; Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Mukherjee S; Department of Psychiatry, MKCG Medical College, Brahmapur 760004, Odisha, India.
  • Shirahatti NB; Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Ransing R; Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walalwalkar Rural Medical College, Ratnagiri 415606, Maharashtra, India.
  • Padhy SK; Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar 751019, Odisha, India.
  • Arafat SMY; Department of Psychiatry, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka 1340, Bangladesh.
J Public Health (Oxf) ; 44(1): e133-e140, 2022 Mar 07.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32939538
BACKGROUND: Celebrity suicides have the potential to trigger suicide contagion, particularly when media reporting is detailed and imbalanced. We aimed to assess the quality of media reporting of suicide of a popular Indian entertainment celebrity against the World Health Organization (WHO) suicide reporting guidelines. METHODS: Relevant news articles that reported the actor's suicide were retrieved from online news portals of regional and English language newspapers and television channels in the immediate week following the event. Deductive content analysis of these articles was done using a pre-designed data extraction form. RESULTS: A total of 573 news articles were analyzed. Several breaches of reporting were noted in relation to mentioning the word 'celebrity' in the title of report (14.7%), inclusion of the deceased's photograph (88.5%), detailed descriptions of the method (50.4%) and location of suicide (70.6%); local language newspapers were more culpable than English newspapers. Helpful reporting characteristics such as mentioning warning signs (4.1%), including educational information (2.7%) and suicide support line details (14.0%) were rarely practiced. CONCLUSION: Media reporting of celebrity suicide in India is imbalanced and poorly adherent to suicide reporting recommendations. Local language news reports display more frequent and serious violations in reporting as opposed to English news articles.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Suicidio / Personajes Tipo de estudio: Guideline Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: Asia Idioma: En Revista: J Public Health (Oxf) Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: India Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Suicidio / Personajes Tipo de estudio: Guideline Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: Asia Idioma: En Revista: J Public Health (Oxf) Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: India Pais de publicación: Reino Unido