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Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas
It is well known that certain types of media reports about suicide can result in imitative suicides. In the last two decades, Japan has experienced two suicide epidemics and the subsequent excessive media coverage of these events. However, the quality of the media suicide reports has yet to be evalu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27754453 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13101013 |
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author | Nabeshima, Yoshihiro Onozuka, Daisuke Kitazono, Takanari Hagihara, Akihito |
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description | It is well known that certain types of media reports about suicide can result in imitative suicides. In the last two decades, Japan has experienced two suicide epidemics and the subsequent excessive media coverage of these events. However, the quality of the media suicide reports has yet to be evaluated in terms of the guidelines for media suicide coverage. Thus, the present study analyzed Japanese newspaper articles (n = 4007) on suicides by charcoal burning or hydrogen sulfide gas between 11 February 2003 and 13 March 2010. The suicide reports were evaluated in terms of the extent to which they conformed to the suicide reporting guidelines. The mean violation scores were 3.06 (±0.7) for all articles, 3.2 (±0.8) for articles about suicide by charcoal burning, and 2.9 (±0.7) for articles about suicide by hydrogen sulfide (p < 0.001). With the exception of not following several recommendations, newspaper articles about suicide have improved in quality, as defined by the recommendations for media suicide coverage. To prevent imitative suicides based on media suicide reports, individuals in the media should try not to report suicide methods and to make attempts to report the poor condition of suicide survivors. |
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spelling | pubmed-50867522016-11-02 Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Nabeshima, Yoshihiro Onozuka, Daisuke Kitazono, Takanari Hagihara, Akihito Int J Environ Res Public Health Article It is well known that certain types of media reports about suicide can result in imitative suicides. In the last two decades, Japan has experienced two suicide epidemics and the subsequent excessive media coverage of these events. However, the quality of the media suicide reports has yet to be evaluated in terms of the guidelines for media suicide coverage. Thus, the present study analyzed Japanese newspaper articles (n = 4007) on suicides by charcoal burning or hydrogen sulfide gas between 11 February 2003 and 13 March 2010. The suicide reports were evaluated in terms of the extent to which they conformed to the suicide reporting guidelines. The mean violation scores were 3.06 (±0.7) for all articles, 3.2 (±0.8) for articles about suicide by charcoal burning, and 2.9 (±0.7) for articles about suicide by hydrogen sulfide (p < 0.001). With the exception of not following several recommendations, newspaper articles about suicide have improved in quality, as defined by the recommendations for media suicide coverage. To prevent imitative suicides based on media suicide reports, individuals in the media should try not to report suicide methods and to make attempts to report the poor condition of suicide survivors. MDPI 2016-10-15 2016-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5086752/ /pubmed/27754453 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13101013 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Nabeshima, Yoshihiro Onozuka, Daisuke Kitazono, Takanari Hagihara, Akihito Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas |
title | Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas |
title_full | Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas |
title_fullStr | Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas |
title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas |
title_short | Analysis of Japanese Articles about Suicides Involving Charcoal Burning or Hydrogen Sulfide Gas |
title_sort | analysis of japanese articles about suicides involving charcoal burning or hydrogen sulfide gas |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27754453 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13101013 |
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