Laboratory of Advanced Studies in Journalism, Institute of Language Studies, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2012;67(3):261-4. doi: 10.6061/clinics/2012(03)10.
The dissemination of health-related news through newspapers can influence the behavior of patients and of health care providers. We conducted a study to analyze the characteristics of health-related research published by two leading Brazilian newspapers.
We retrospectively evaluated health-related news published in the electronic versions of the newspapers Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo over a period of three months (July through September, 2009). Only articles mentioning medical research were included. The articles were categorized according to topic, source, study location and the nature of the headline. We also analyzed the presence of background information on the topic, citations of medical periodicals, national contextualization and references to products or companies.
Scientific research articles corresponded to 57% and 20% of health-related articles published by Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo, respectively. Folha de São Paulo published significantly more articles about national studies, and most articles were written by its own staff. In contrast, most articles in O Estado de São Paulo came from news agencies. Folha de São Paulo also better contextualized its reports for Brazilian society. O Estado de São Paulo tended to cite the name of the periodical in which the study was published more frequently, but their articles lacked national contextualization.
The results showed a significant difference in the way in which the studied newspapers report on health-related research. Folha de São Paulo tends to write its own articles and more frequently publishes the results of national research, whereas O Estado de São Paulo publishes articles that originate in news agencies, most of which have little national contextualization.
通过报纸传播与健康相关的新闻可以影响患者和医疗保健提供者的行为。我们进行了一项研究，以分析两份巴西主要报纸发表的与健康相关的研究的特点。
我们回顾性地评估了《圣保罗页报》和《圣保罗州报》电子版本在三个月（2009 年 7 月至 9 月）期间发表的与健康相关的新闻。仅包括提及医学研究的文章。根据主题、来源、研究地点和标题性质对文章进行分类。我们还分析了主题背景信息的存在、医学期刊的引用、国家背景和对产品或公司的提及。
科学研究文章分别占《圣保罗页报》和《圣保罗州报》发表的与健康相关文章的 57%和 20%。《圣保罗页报》发表的关于国家研究的文章明显更多，而且大多数文章都是由其自己的工作人员撰写的。相比之下，《圣保罗州报》的大多数文章都来自新闻社。《圣保罗页报》还更好地为巴西社会对其报道进行了背景化。《圣保罗州报》倾向于更频繁地引用发表研究的期刊名称，但他们的文章缺乏国家背景。
结果表明，所研究的报纸在报道与健康相关的研究方面存在显著差异。《圣保罗页报》倾向于撰写自己的文章，并更频繁地发表国内研究成果，而《圣保罗州报》则发表来自新闻社的文章，其中大多数文章几乎没有国家背景。
