Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effects.

Year: 2015 Source: The British Journal of Psychiatry.(2010).197(3):234-243. DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.074633 SIEC No: 20150414

Media reporting of suicide has repeatedly been shown to trigger suicidal behaviour. Few studies have investigated the associations between specific media content and suicide rates. Even less is known about the possible preventive effects of suicide-related. To test the hypotheses that certain media content is associated with an increase in suicide, suggesting a so-called Werther effect, and that other content is associated with a decrease in suicide, conceptualised as a Papageno effect. Further, to identify classes of media articles with similar reporting profiles and to test for associations between these classes and suicide.

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