Section of Community Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
BMC Public Health. 2011 Oct 12;11:796. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-796.
Recent years have seen a number of attempts to reduce the stigma related to mental illness; the media can play a significant role in perpetuating this stigma. This paper analyses trends in newspaper coverage of mental illness in the UK between 1992-2008 across a range of psychiatric diagnoses.
A content analysis was performed on a sample of articles (n = 1361) about mental illness in a range of UK newspapers in 1992, 2000, and 2008.
There was a significant proportional reduction in negative articles about mental illness between 1992 and 2008, and a significant increase in articles explaining psychiatric disorders. Coverage improved for depression but remained largely negative for schizophrenia.
Newspaper coverage of mental illness became less stigmatising overall in the 1990s and 2000s, but this was not true for all diagnoses.
近年来，人们做出了许多努力来减少与精神疾病相关的耻辱感；媒体在延续这种耻辱感方面可以发挥重要作用。本文分析了 1992 年至 2008 年间英国报纸对一系列精神疾病诊断的报道趋势。
对英国各类报纸上的精神疾病文章（n=1361）样本进行了内容分析，这些文章发表于 1992 年、2000 年和 2008 年。
1992 年至 2008 年间，负面报道精神疾病的文章比例显著下降，解释精神障碍的文章比例显著上升。对抑郁症的报道有所改善，但对精神分裂症的报道仍然主要是负面的。
20 世纪 90 年代和 21 世纪初，报纸对精神疾病的报道总体上不再那么污名化，但并非所有诊断都是如此。
