Adherence to the WHO Guidelines on Suicide Reporting: A Content Analysis from Bengaluru, India

Adherence to the WHO Guidelines on Suicide Reporting: A Content Analysis from Bengaluru, India

Background: Media, with its power to influence the masses, is found to have an impact on how the readers perceive suicide, and evidence suggest that suicidal behavior is contagious. However, studies have shown that it is possible to intervene by implementing media guidelines for suicide reporting. U...

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Main Authors: Lekshmi Vimala, Bharath Rathinam, Gurucharan B Mendon, Ashok Kumar Bakka, Akanksha Rani, R. Dhanasekara Pandian, Santosh Loganathan, Richard Rego, Anish V. Cherian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2025-04-01
Series:Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry
Subjects:
media guideline
sensationalization of suicide
suicide
suicide reporting
werther effect
Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijsp.ijsp_318_23
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