Faulkner Guy, Finlay Sara-Jane, Roy Stephannie C
Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
J Phys Act Health. 2007 Apr;4(2):180-92. doi: 10.1123/jpah.4.2.180.
News media may play a critical role in disseminating research about physical activity and health. This study examined how much physical activity research gets reported in the media and its prominence and credibility.
A content analysis was conducted of the reporting of physical activity research in Canadian national and local newspapers from November 2004 to April 2005.
Physical activity research was given some prominence and treated as news through the use of several devices to infer credibility. However, newspapers appeared to invest little in the production of physical activity research as news and information about research methodology was infrequent.
While stories reporting physical activity research were given some prominence and credibility, the lack of significant investment and the limited reporting on research methodology suggests that important aspects of research related to physical activity may not be well represented in newspaper coverage.
新闻媒体在传播有关体育活动与健康的研究方面可能发挥关键作用。本研究调查了媒体对体育活动研究的报道量、突出程度及其可信度。
对2004年11月至2005年4月加拿大全国性和地方性报纸上体育活动研究的报道进行了内容分析。
体育活动研究通过使用多种手段来推断可信度而受到一定程度的突出报道并被当作新闻对待。然而，报纸似乎在将体育活动研究作为新闻进行制作方面投入甚少，关于研究方法的信息也很少见。
虽然报道体育活动研究的文章受到了一定程度的突出报道和具有一定可信度，但缺乏大量投入以及对研究方法的报道有限，这表明与体育活动相关的研究的重要方面在报纸报道中可能没有得到很好的呈现。
