Department of Psychiatry and the Faculty of Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2010 Feb;40(1):81-6. doi: 10.1521/suli.2010.40.1.81.
The relationship between the regional distribution densities of different media and the suicide death rate was explored by analyzing the annual total, male, and female suicide rates and media densities from 23 cities/counties in Taiwan during 1998-2006 by univariate and multivariate regression adjusted for five socioeconomic factors. The regional density of newspapers was significantly inversely related to the total, male, and female suicide rates, while that of television sets was not. The density of in-home personal computers was significantly positively related to the total and male suicide rates, but not the female suicide rate. The results indicate that media reporting on suicide can be beneficial, instead of harmful, depending on the content.
通过分析 1998 年至 2006 年台湾 23 个市县的年度总自杀率、男性自杀率和女性自杀率以及媒体密度，探讨了不同媒体的区域分布密度与自杀死亡率之间的关系。在调整了五个社会经济因素后，单变量和多变量回归分析表明，报纸的区域密度与总自杀率、男性自杀率和女性自杀率呈显著负相关，而电视机的区域密度则没有。家庭个人电脑的密度与总自杀率和男性自杀率呈显著正相关，但与女性自杀率无关。结果表明，媒体对自杀的报道可能是有益的，而不是有害的，这取决于报道的内容。
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