Newspaper coverage of mental illness in England 2008-2011.

The British journal of psychiatry. Supplement Pub Date : 2013-04-01 DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112920

Amalia Thornicroft, Robert Goulden, Guy Shefer, Danielle Rhydderch, Diana Rose, Paul Williams, Graham Thornicroft, Claire Henderson

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Background: Better newspaper coverage of mental health-related issues is a target for the Time to Change (TTC) anti-stigma programme in England, whose population impact may be influenced by how far concurrent media coverage perpetuates stigma and discrimination.

Aims: To compare English newspaper coverage of mental health-related topics each year of the TTC social marketing campaign (2009-2011) with baseline coverage in 2008.

Method: Content analysis was performed on articles in 27 local and national newspapers on two randomly chosen days each month.

Results: There was a significant increase in the proportion of anti-stigmatising articles between 2008 and 2011. There was no concomitant proportional decrease in stigmatising articles, and the contribution of mixed or neutral elements decreased.

Conclusions: These findings provide promising results on improvements in press reporting of mental illness during the TTC programme in 2009-2011, and a basis for guidance to newspaper journalists and editors on reporting mental illness.

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2008-2011年英国报纸对精神疾病的报道。

背景：更好的报纸对精神健康问题的报道是英国“改变时间”（TTC）反污名化计划的目标，其人口影响可能受到同时媒体报道使污名化和歧视延续到何种程度的影响。目的：比较2009-2011年TTC社会营销活动中每年英语报纸对心理健康相关主题的报道与2008年的基线报道。方法：每月随机选取两天，对27家地方和全国性报纸的文章进行内容分析。结果：2008年至2011年间，反污名文章的比例显著增加。污名化条目没有相应的比例减少，混合或中性元素的贡献减少。结论：这些发现为2009-2011年TTC规划期间精神疾病新闻报道的改善提供了有希望的结果，并为新闻记者和编辑报道精神疾病提供了指导依据。

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