Changes in Media Reporting Quality and Suicides Following National Media Engagement on Responsible Reporting of Suicide in Canada

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作者
Sinyor, Mark [1 ,2 ,15 ]
Ekstein, Daniella [1 ]
Prabaharan, Nivetha [3 ]
Fiksenbaum, Lisa [4 ]
Vandermeer, Caroline [5 ]
Schaffer, Ayal [1 ,2 ]
Pirkis, Jane [6 ]
Heisel, Marnin J. [7 ]
Goldstein, Benjamin I. [2 ,8 ]
Redelmeier, Donald A. [9 ,10 ,11 ]
Taylor, Paul [12 ]
Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas [13 ,14 ]
机构
[1] Sunnybrook Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Psychiat, Toronto, ON, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Psychiat, Toronto, ON, Canada
[3] Univ Toronto, Factor Inwentash Fac Social Work, Toronto, ON, Canada
[4] York Univ, Dept Psychol, Toronto, ON, Canada
[5] Univ Southern Calif, Viterbi Sch Engn, Los Angeles, CA USA
[6] Univ Melbourne, Ctr Mental Hlth, Melbourne Sch Populat & Global Hlth, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[7] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Psychiat, London, ON, Canada
[8] Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Ctr Youth Bipolar Disorder, Toronto, ON, Canada
[9] Inst Clin Evaluat Sci, Toronto, ON, Canada
[10] Univ Toronto, Dept Med, Toronto, ON, Canada
[11] Sunnybrook Hlth Sci Ctr, Div Gen Internal Med, Toronto, ON, Canada
[12] Sunnybrook Hlth Sci Ctr, Toronto, ON, Canada
[13] Med Univ Vienna, Ctr Publ Hlth, Dept Social & Prevent Med, Unit Suicide Res & Mental Hlth Promot, Vienna, Austria
[14] Wiener Werkstaette Suicide Res, Vienna, Austria
[15] Sunnybrook Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Psychiat, 2075 Bayview Ave,FG52, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
来源
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE | 2024年 / 69卷 / 05期
关键词
suicide; media; media reporting; Werther effect; Papageno effect; media guidelines; narratives; medias; reportages des medias; effet Werther; effet Papageno; lignes directrices mediatiques; recits; NEWS MEDIA; ASSOCIATION; COVERAGE; RATES; PUBLICATION; GUIDELINES; CELEBRITY; ONTARIO; DEATHS;
D O I
10.1177/07067437231223334
中图分类号
R749 [精神病学];
学科分类号
100205 ;
摘要
Objective Responsible media reporting is an accepted strategy for preventing suicide. In 2015, suicide prevention experts launched a media engagement initiative aimed at improving suicide-related reporting in Canada; its impact on media reporting quality and suicide deaths is unknown.Method This pre-post observational study examined changes in reporting characteristics in a random sample of suicide-related articles from major publications in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) media market. Articles (n = 900) included 450 from the 6-year periods prior to and after the initiative began. We also examined changes in suicide counts in the GTA between these epochs. We used chi-square tests to analyse changes in reporting characteristics and time-series analyses to identify changes in suicide counts. Secondary outcomes focused on guidelines developed by media professionals in Canada and how they may have influenced media reporting quality as well as on the overarching narrative of media articles during the most recent years of available data.Results Across-the-board improvement was observed in suicide-related reporting with substantial reductions in many elements of putatively harmful content and substantial increases in all aspects of putatively protective content. However, overarching article narratives remained potentially harmful with 55.2% of articles telling the story of someone's death and 20.8% presenting an other negative message. Only 3.6% of articles told a story of survival. After controlling for potential confounders, a nonsignificant numeric decrease in suicide counts was identified after initiative implementation (omega = -5.41, SE = 3.43, t = 1.58, p = 0.12).Conclusions We found evidence that a strategy to engage media in Canada changed the content of reporting, but there was only a nonsignificant trend towards fewer suicides. A more fundamental change in media narratives to focus on survival rather than death appears warranted. Objectif Le reportage mediatique responsable est une strategie convenue pour prevenir le suicide. En 2015, les experts de la prevention du suicide ont lance une initiative d'engagement des medias visant a ameliorer les reportages lies au suicide au Canada; dont l'effet sur la qualite des reportages mediatiques et sur les deces par suicide n'est pas connu.Methode La presente etude observationnelle pre-post a examine les changements des caracteristiques des reportages dans un echantillon aleatoire d'articles lies au suicide des principales publications du marche des medias de la Region du Grand Toronto (RGT). Parmi les articles (n = 900), il y en avait 450 pendant la periode etalee 6 ans avant et apres le debut de l'initiative. Nous avons aussi examine les changements des nombres de suicides dans la RGT entre ces epoques. Nous avons utilise des tests du chi carre pour analyser les changements de caracteristiques des reportages, et des analyses de series chronologiques ont servi a identifier les changements des nombres de suicides. Les resultats secondaires portaient sur les lignes directrices elaborees par les professionnels des medias du Canada et sur la maniere dont elles ont pu influencer la qualite des reportages mediatiques ainsi que sur la narration globale des articles mediatiques durant les annees les plus recentes ou les donnees etaient disponibles.Resultats Une amelioration generale a ete observee dans les reportages sur le suicide ainsi que des reductions substantielles dans bien des elements du contenu potentiellement nocif et des augmentations substantielles dans tous les aspects du contenu possiblement protecteur. Toutefois, en globalite, les recits des articles demeuraient possiblement nocifs avec 55,2% des articles racontant l'histoire du deces de quelqu'un et 20,8% presentant un autre message negatif. Seulement 3,6% des articles relataient une histoire de survie. Apres un controle pour des confondants potentiels, une diminution numerique non significative des nombres de suicides a ete identifiee apres la mise en oe uvre de l'initiative (omega = -5,41, SE = 3,43, t = 1,58, p = 0,12).Conclusions Nous avons constate la preuve qu'une strategie d'engager les medias au Canada changeait le contenu des reportages, mais qu'il n'y avait qu'une tendance non significative a la reduction du nombre de suicides. Un changement des recits mediatiques qui seraient axes sur la survie plutot que sur le deces semble justifie.
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