Addressing mental health stigma in low-income and middle-income countries: A new frontier for digital mental health

JA Naslund, D Deng - Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Mental health stigma is a major barrier to seeking help, and leads to poor
quality of life and social withdrawal for individuals living with mental illness. These concerns …

Quality of media reporting of suicidal behaviors in South-East Asia

SMY Arafat, SK Kar, M Marthoenis, AV Cherian… - … , Psychiatry and Brain …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Suicide is a major global public health problem whilst sensible media reporting
in an important population-level prevention strategy. Objectives We reviewed the quality of …

The quality of online media reporting of celebrity suicide in India and its association with subsequent online suicide-related search behaviour among general …

R Ganesh, S Singh, R Mishra, R Sagar - Asian journal of psychiatry, 2020 - Elsevier
The literature reports increased suicide rates among general population in the weeks
following the celebrity suicide, known as the Werther effect. The World Health Organization …

Do Tamil newspapers educate the public about suicide? Content analysis from a high suicide Union Territory in India

V Menon, C Kaliamoorthy, VK Sridhar… - … Journal of Social …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Responsible media reporting of suicide is a key population-level suicide
prevention strategy. Thus far, there has been no systematic analysis of media reporting of …

Suicidal behaviour and the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic: Insights from Durkheim's sociology of suicide

AR Khan, SMAK Shimul… - … social science journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Whilst suicide is well established as a critical global public health burden causing around
800,000 deaths annually along with many more attempts, there is a concern that the impact …

Quality of media reporting of suicide in Iraq

SMY Arafat, AR Ahmad, AK Saeed… - … journal of social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Mass media has an important role in influencing the suicidal behavior of the
general population. However, the quality of news reporting of suicide has not been …

Variations in newspaper reporting of suicidal behavior in the WHO–South-East Asian region

SMY Arafat, V Menon, S Bascarane… - Journal of Public …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background South-East Asia is a densely populated region, comprising of 11 low-
and middle-income countries and contributing to 39% of global suicides. There are serious …

Newspaper reporting of suicide news in a high suicide burden state in India: is it compliant with international reporting guidelines?

V Menon, AM Mani, N Kurian, S Sahadevan… - Asian journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Mounting evidence points to a substantial link between detailed media
portrayals of suicide and imitative suicidal behaviour. We assessed the quality of media …

Quality of media reporting following a celebrity suicide in India

V Menon, SK Kar, N Varadharajan… - Journal of public …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Celebrity suicides have the potential to trigger suicide contagion, particularly
when media reporting is detailed and imbalanced. We aimed to assess the quality of media …

Stigma, support, and ideation about suicide in Indonesian twitter: A topic modelling study

AH Azizy, HB Thontowi - OMEGA-Journal of death and dying, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Stigma surrounding suicide is a massive problem in Indonesia. Thus, it is important to study
how conversations about suicide take place. We take a machine learning approach and …