Suicide reporting of LGBTQI+ population in India: An analysis of online media reports of the past decade.

Autor:	Kar SK; Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226003, India., Menon V; Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry 605006, India., Mukherjee S; Department of Psychiatry, M.K.C.G. Medical College, Brahmapur, Ganjam, Odisha 760004, India., Bascarane S; Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry 605006, India., Sharma G; Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226003, India., Pattnaik JI; Department of Psychiatry, Kalinga Institute of Medical College (KIMS) KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India., Ransing R; Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walalwalkar Rural Medical College, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra 415606, India., Padhy SK; Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751019, India., Agarwal V; Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226003, India.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of public health (Oxford, England) [J Public Health (Oxf)] 2023 Mar 14; Vol. 45 (1), pp. e95-e103.
DOI:	10.1093/pubmed/fdab378
Abstrakt:	Background: Imbalanced portrayal of suicide by the media can have adverse public health consequences. We aimed to evaluate the psychosocial context, as well as the quality of media reporting, of suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) population. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate online news reports discussing the suicide of LGBTQI+ persons published between January 2011 and January 2021. Psychosocial factors associated with suicide were extracted from the reports. Quality of suicide reporting was checked against international as well as locally relevant reporting guidelines. Results: A total of 135 suicide reports from five newspapers were analyzed. Multiple psychosocial stressors were reported in 54.5% of the suicides. Social stigma was the most common factor associated with LGBTQI+ suicide. Several breaches of reporting were noted in relation to mentioning the identity (55.6%) and method of suicide (54.3%) in the title of report and inclusion of the deceased's photograph (20.4%). Potentially helpful reporting characteristics, such as including educational information (2.2%), mentioning warning signs (12.6%) and suicide support service details (3.7%), were rarely practiced. Local language news articles displayed more frequent and serious violations compared to English news reports. Conclusion: Indian media reporting of suicide among LGBTQI+ persons is poorly adherent to reporting guidelines. (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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