Assessing the quality of media reporting of suicide news in India against World Health Organization guidelines: A content analysis study of nine major newspapers in Tamil Nadu | Zendy

Gregory Armstrong | Zendy; Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Zendy; Thomas Niederkrotenthaler | Zendy; Mala Jayaseelan | Zendy; Ramya Kannan | Zendy; Jane Pirkis | Zendy; Anthony F. Jorm | Zendy

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Assessing the quality of media reporting of suicide news in India against World Health Organization guidelines: A content analysis study of nine major newspapers in Tamil Nadu

Author(s) -

Gregory Armstrong,

Lakshmi Vijayakumar,

Thomas Niederkrotenthaler,

Mala Jayaseelan,

Ramya Kannan,

Jane Pirkis,

Anthony F. Jorm

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

australian and new zealand journal of psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.66

H-Index - 116

eISSN - 1440-1614

pISSN - 0004-8674

DOI - 10.1177/0004867418772343

Subject(s) - tamil , newspaper , content analysis , quality (philosophy) , occupational safety and health , medicine , environmental health , advertising , business , sociology , social science , pathology , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology

Suicide rates in India are among the highest in the world, resulting in an estimated 250,000 suicide deaths annually. How the media communicates with the Indian public on the topic of suicide has thus far gone without sufficient scrutiny. The objective of our study was to assess the quality of newspaper reporting of suicide-related news in India against World Health Organization suicide reporting guidelines.

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