Quality of Thai media reporting of suicidal behavior: Compliance against the World Health Organization media guidelines

Q3 Medicine

Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.npbr.2020.09.003

Marthoenis Marthoenis , Hasina Akter , S.M. Yasir Arafat

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Abstract

Background

Although media reporting has influence on suicide there has no report in Thailand regarding the quality of media in reporting suicidal news.

Objectives

This study aimed to assess the quality of English language media reports of suicidal behaviors in Thailand against the World Health Organization (WHO) media guidelines.

Methods

We scrutinized the suicide news contents of four purposively selected English language newspapers in Thailand. Using Google search function of the online newspapers, the keywords of “suicide”, “hanging self”, and “drink poison” were used to search the suicide-related news contents.

Results

The vast majority of English newspapers in Thailand reported harmful information in reporting suicide-related news. Almost all reported locations where the suicide took place, methods of suicide, gender and age of the victim. Approximately one-fourth also showed a picture of the person who died by suicide.

Conclusions

The English online newspaper in Thailand did not follow the WHO media guidelines in reporting suicide news. Harmful information to the readers was presented in both title and content of the news. Meanwhile, potentially helpful information such as who to contact or where to seek help had been rarely reported.

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泰国媒体对自杀行为的报道质量:对世界卫生组织媒体准则的遵守情况

虽然媒体报道对自杀有影响，但在泰国没有关于媒体报道自杀新闻质量的报道。目的本研究旨在对照世界卫生组织(WHO)媒体指南评估泰国自杀行为英文媒体报道的质量。方法对泰国四家英文报纸的自杀新闻内容进行分析。利用网络报纸谷歌搜索功能，以“自杀”、“上吊自杀”、“饮毒”等关键词搜索自杀相关新闻内容。结果泰国绝大多数英文报纸在报道自杀相关新闻时都存在有害信息。几乎所有人都报告了自杀发生的地点、自杀方式、受害者的性别和年龄。大约四分之一的人还展示了自杀者的照片。泰国的英文在线报纸在报道自杀新闻时没有遵循世卫组织媒体指南。这则新闻的标题和内容都给读者带来了有害的信息。与此同时，潜在的有用信息，如联系谁或在哪里寻求帮助，很少被报道。

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Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research 医学-精神病学

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