The Relationship Between Media Reporting of Suicide and Actual Suicide in Australia  

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Pirkis, Jane E. ; Burgess, Philip M. ; Francis, Catherine ; Blood, R. Warwick ; Jolley, Damien J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 11 (Jun. 2006), page 2874-2886.
Topik: suicide; suicide; media; copycat behaviours; imitation; australia

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This study aimed to determine whether media items about suicide were associated with differentia increases in actual suicides. Data were available on 4635 suicide related items appearing in austraian newspapers and on radio and television news and current affairs shows between march 2000 and february 2001. These data were combined with national data on completed suicides occuring during the same period, by aprocess that involved identifying the date and geographical reach of the media items and determining the number of suicides occuring in the same location in selected weeks pre and post item. Regression analyses were conducted to determine whether the likelihood of an increase in post item suicides could be explained by particular item characteristics. We found that 39% of media items were followed by an increase in male suicides, and 31% by an increase in female suicides. Media items were more likely to be associated with increases in both male and female suicides if they occured in the context of multiple other reports on suicide (versus occuring in isolation), if they were broadcast on television (versus other media), and if they were about completed suicide (versus attempted in male suicides being associated with items about an individual's experience of suicide and opinion pieces, and an increase in female suicides being associated with items about amss or murder suicide. Item prominence and qualty were not differentialy associaetd with increases in male or female suicides. Further research on this topic is required, but in the meantime there is need to remain vigilant about how suicide news is reported. Mental health professionals and suicide experts should collaborate with media professionals to try to balance public interest against the risk of harm.

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