Stack S
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003 Apr;57(4):238-40. doi: 10.1136/jech.57.4.238.
A total of 293 findings from 42 studies on the impact of publicized suicide stories in the media on the incidence of suicide in the real world were analyzed by logistic regression analysis. Studies measuring the effect of either an entertainment or political celebrity suicide story were 14.3 times more likely to find a copycat effect than studies that did not. Studies based on a real as opposed to fictional story were 4.03 times more likely to uncover a copycat effect. Research based on televised stories was 82% less likely to report a copycat effect than research based on newspapers. A review of recent events in Austria and Switzerland indicates that suicide prevention organizations can successfully convince the media to change the frequency and content of their suicide coverage in an effort to reduce copycat effects.
通过逻辑回归分析，对42项关于媒体报道的自杀事件对现实世界中自杀发生率影响的研究中的293项结果进行了分析。测量娱乐或政治名人自杀事件报道影响的研究发现模仿效应的可能性是未进行此类测量的研究的14.3倍。基于真实故事而非虚构故事的研究发现模仿效应的可能性是前者的4.03倍。基于电视报道的研究报告模仿效应的可能性比基于报纸报道的研究低82%。对奥地利和瑞士近期事件的回顾表明，自杀预防组织可以成功说服媒体改变自杀报道的频率和内容，以减少模仿效应。
