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People see what papers show! Psychiatry's stint with print media: A pilot study from Mumbai, India.
- Source :
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Indian Journal of Psychiatry . Oct-Dec2015, Vol. 57 Issue 4, p407-411. 5p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Mass media including television, internet, and newspapers influences public views about various issues by means of how it covers an issue. Newspapers have a wider reach and may affect the impact that a news story has on the reader by factors such as placement of the story within the different pages. We did a pilot study to see how two English newspapers from Mumbai, India were covering psychiatry related news stories. The study was done over a period of 3 months. We found a total of 870 psychiatry related news stories in the two newspapers over 3 months with the majority of them being covered in the main body of the newspapers. Sex‑related crime stories and/or sexual dysfunction stories received the highest coverage among all the news while treatment and/or recovery related stories received very little coverage. It is crucial that the print media takes more efforts in improving reporting of psychiatry‑related stories and help in de‑stigmatizing psychiatry as a discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00195545
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111962844
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.171840