https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/597200
標題: | Newspaper reporting and the emergence of charcoal burning suicide in Taiwan: A mixed methods approach | 作者: | Chen Y.-Y. Tsai C.-W. Biddle L. Niederkrotenthaler T. KEVIN CHIEN-CHANG WU Gunnell D. |
關鍵字: | Acculturation; Charcoal burning suicide; Media; Mixed methods; Newspaper; Taiwan | 公開日期: | 2016 | 出版社: | Elsevier B.V. | 卷: | 193 | 起(迄)頁: | 355-361 | 來源出版物: | Journal of Affective Disorders | 摘要: | Background It has been suggested that extensive media reporting of charcoal burning suicide was a key factor in the rapid spread of this novel method in many East Asian countries. But very few empirical studies have explored the relationship between media reporting and the emergence of this new method of suicide. Aims We investigated the changing pattern of media reporting of charcoal burning suicides in Taiwan during 1998-2002 when this method of suicide increased most rapidly, assessing whether the characteristics of media reporting were associated with the changing incidence of suicide using this method. Methods A mixed method approach, combining quantitative and qualitative analysis of newspaper content during 1998-2002 was used. We compared differences in reporting characteristics before and after the rapid increase in charcoal burning suicide. Point-biserial and Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to quantify the associations between the media item content and changes in suicide rates. Results During the period when charcoal burning suicide increased rapidly, the number of reports per suicide was considerably higher than during the early stage (0.31 vs. 0.10). Detailed reporting of this new method was associated with a post-reporting increase in suicides using the method. Qualitative analysis of news items revealed that the content of reports of suicide by charcoal burning changed gradually; in the early stages of the epidemic (1999-2000) there was convergence in the terminology used to report charcoal burning deaths, later reports gave detailed descriptions of the setting in which the death occurred (2001) and finally the method was glamourized and widely publicized (2001-2002). Limitations Our analysis was restricted to newspaper reports and did not include TV or the Internet. Conclusions Newspaper reporting was associated with the evolution and establishment of charcoal burning suicide. Working with media and close monitoring of changes in the incidence of suicide using a new method might help prevent a suicide epidemic such as charcoal burning suicide seen in Taiwan. ? 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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ISSN: | 0165-0327 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jad.2015.12.041 | SDG/關鍵字: | Article; charcoal burning suicide; epidemic; human; Internet; major clinical study; priority journal; publication; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis; suicide; Taiwan; television; epidemiology; incidence; publishing; statistics and numerical data; suicide; charcoal; Charcoal; Humans; Incidence; Journalism; Newspapers as Topic; Suicide; Taiwan |
顯示於: | 醫學教育暨生醫倫理學科所 |
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