Scholz Brett, Crabb Shona, Wittert Gary A
University of Canberra, Bruce, Australia Capital Territory, Australia
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Qual Health Res. 2014 Dec;24(12):1648-57. doi: 10.1177/1049732314549020. Epub 2014 Sep 11.
News articles play a role in reproducing or challenging stigma. Stigma, in turn, can be a barrier to men's mental health help seeking. We used discursive analytic principles to analyze portrayals of men's communication about depression in news articles over a 5-year period. We found that news articles depicted men who were open about depression as experiencing positive outcomes such as recovery. Such depictions might challenge stigma associated with talking about mental health concerns. However, some articles problematically positioned depressed men as individually responsible for defying stigma and achieving recovery. We suggest that portraying depression as something that impacts a plurality of men is one way that media messages might dispel stigma. We drew recommendations from the findings about the language that could be used by media, mental health campaigns, and health service providers to mitigate the impact of stigma on men's mental health help seeking.
新闻报道在再现或挑战污名化方面发挥着作用。反过来，污名化可能成为男性寻求心理健康帮助的障碍。我们运用话语分析原则，对五年间新闻报道中男性关于抑郁症交流的描述进行了分析。我们发现，新闻报道将那些对抑郁症持开放态度的男性描绘为经历了康复等积极结果。这样的描述可能会挑战与谈论心理健康问题相关的污名化。然而，一些文章存在问题地将抑郁男性定位为独自应对污名化并实现康复的责任人。我们建议，将抑郁症描绘为影响众多男性的问题，是媒体信息消除污名化的一种方式。我们从研究结果中得出了一些建议，涉及媒体、心理健康宣传活动和医疗服务提供者可使用的语言，以减轻污名化对男性寻求心理健康帮助的影响。
