这项研究旨在检查加拿大媒体的日常自杀报道,对新闻文章的语气和内容进行描述性概述。主要目标是评估有关自杀的新闻文章中对自杀建议的负责任报告的遵守情况。次要目标是根据重点对这些文章进行分类。第三个目标是比较不同类别文章的指南遵守情况。
我们在2019年4月1日至2020年3月31日期间从47个加拿大新闻来源收集了包含关键字“自杀”的新闻文章。阅读并编码文章,以遵守自杀建议的负责任报告。文章还根据其重点和讨论的主要自杀分为几类。计算所有关键变量的频率计数和依从性百分比-总体和文章类别。还进行了卡方检验以评估按文章类别的依从性变化。
这些程序产生了1,330个编码文章。一方面,对几项建议的总体依从性较高.例如,超过80%的文章没有给出单一解释,荣耀死亡,出现在头版,包括耸人听闻的语言,或使用气馁的话。另一方面,对其他建议的依从性低,特别是那些与假定的保护性内容有关的。例如,不到25%的人包括寻求帮助的信息,引用一位专家的话说,或包含教育内容。跨类别分析表明,有关事件/政策/研究和土著人民的文章的遵守比例最高,而关于谋杀自杀和高调自杀的文章依从性最低。
虽然相当一部分文章普遍坚持自杀报告建议,一些指导方针经常应用不足,尤其是那些关于推定有用内容的人。这表明在负责任的自杀报告方面还有改进的余地。
This study aims to examine routine day-to-day suicide reporting in the Canadian media, giving a descriptive overview of the tone and content of news articles. The primary objective is to assess adherence to responsible reporting of suicide recommendations in news articles about suicide. A secondary objective is to categorize these articles according to their focus. A tertiary objective is to compare
guideline adherence across the different categories of articles.
We collected news articles containing the keyword \"suicide\" from 47 Canadian news sources between April 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020. Articles were read and coded for their adherence to responsible reporting of suicide recommendations. Articles were also allotted into categories according to their focus and primary suicide discussed. Frequency counts and percentages of adherence were calculated for all key variables-both overall and by category of article. Chi-square tests were also conducted to assess for variations in adherence by category of article.
The procedures resulted in 1,330 coded articles. On the one hand, there was high overall adherence to several recommendations. For example, over 80% of articles did not give a monocausal explanation, glamourize the death, appear on the front page, include sensational language, or use discouraged words. On the other hand, there was low adherence to other recommendations, especially those related to putatively protective content. For example, less than 25% included help-seeking information, quoted an expert, or included educational content. Cross-category analysis indicated that articles about events/policies/research and Indigenous people had the highest proportions of adherence, while articles about murder-suicide and high-profile suicides had the lowest adherence.
While a substantial proportion of articles generally adhere to suicide reporting recommendations, several
guidelines are frequently underapplied, especially those concerning putatively helpful content. This indicates room for improvement in the responsible reporting of suicide.