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Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health
Chile has a serious public health problem due to the high prevalence of both unhealthy dietary patterns and mental illnesses. Given that dietary quality is positively associated with the quality of mental health, it is urgent that healthy dietary patterns be promoted among Chileans. The WHO recommen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7956271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33668981 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052273 |
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author | Sanchez-Sabate, Ruben Zunino, Esteban Badilla-Briones, Yasna Celedon Celis, Natalia Caro Saldías, Daniel |
author_facet | Sanchez-Sabate, Ruben Zunino, Esteban Badilla-Briones, Yasna Celedon Celis, Natalia Caro Saldías, Daniel |
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description | Chile has a serious public health problem due to the high prevalence of both unhealthy dietary patterns and mental illnesses. Given that dietary quality is positively associated with the quality of mental health, it is urgent that healthy dietary patterns be promoted among Chileans. The WHO recommends the use of mass media for the dissemination of knowledge about mental health. Since health news affect people’s attitudes and health behaviors, this study analyzed the coverage by three Chilean online newspapers with the largest readership regarding the relation between diet and mental health in 2016. A previously constructed corpus of 2551 news items about food was analyzed quantitatively. The results show that the relevance of the topic diet and mental health was low in all three newspapers. The most frequent type of information was on “foods” and not “nutrients” that “benefit”—not that “damage”—mental health. The quality of the news was poor as a narrow range of sources was found. An individual responsibility frame predominated in the information to the detriment of a public health frame. |
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spelling | pubmed-79562712021-03-15 Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health Sanchez-Sabate, Ruben Zunino, Esteban Badilla-Briones, Yasna Celedon Celis, Natalia Caro Saldías, Daniel Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Chile has a serious public health problem due to the high prevalence of both unhealthy dietary patterns and mental illnesses. Given that dietary quality is positively associated with the quality of mental health, it is urgent that healthy dietary patterns be promoted among Chileans. The WHO recommends the use of mass media for the dissemination of knowledge about mental health. Since health news affect people’s attitudes and health behaviors, this study analyzed the coverage by three Chilean online newspapers with the largest readership regarding the relation between diet and mental health in 2016. A previously constructed corpus of 2551 news items about food was analyzed quantitatively. The results show that the relevance of the topic diet and mental health was low in all three newspapers. The most frequent type of information was on “foods” and not “nutrients” that “benefit”—not that “damage”—mental health. The quality of the news was poor as a narrow range of sources was found. An individual responsibility frame predominated in the information to the detriment of a public health frame. MDPI 2021-02-25 2021-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7956271/ /pubmed/33668981 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052273 Text en © 2021 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 Sanchez-Sabate, Ruben Zunino, Esteban Badilla-Briones, Yasna Celedon Celis, Natalia Caro Saldías, Daniel Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health |
title | Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health |
title_full | Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health |
title_fullStr | Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health |
title_short | Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health |
title_sort | chilean digital press coverage of the relation between diet and mental health |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7956271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33668981 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052273 |
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