Wilbur Kerry, Berzou Souad, Meeds Robert
1 College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
2 Department of Mass Communication, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
J Int Med Res. 2017 Dec;45(6):1750-1759. doi: 10.1177/0300060516650983. Epub 2017 Apr 28.
Objective To evaluate health-related messages in printed media pertaining to diabetes care in Qatar during Ramadan. Methods Qatar national newspapers (Arabic and/or English) published 6 weeks prior to and 4 weeks during Ramadan 2012 were reviewed. Health-related content was identified and characterized according to four different categories including presence of messages pertaining to both diabetes and Ramadan. Articles describing diabetes and Ramadan combined were further evaluated according to specific features of prominence (surrogates for perceived reader importance). Newspapers were grouped by language, and volume and content of coverage were compared between groups. Results A total of 1 467 newspaper issues published during the 2012 review period (781 in Arabic and 686 in English) were analysed. Health-related articles appeared consistently throughout the study period, but few were specifically diabetes-related (66/1095 [6%] Arabic articles versus 34/1250 [2.7%] English articles; P = 0.008). Only 34/1095 (3.1%) Arabic and 23/1 250 (1.8%) English ( P = 0.05) articles pertaining specifically to diabetes management during Ramadan were published. Twenty/34 (59%, Arabic) and 6/23 (26%, English) were published in high prominence positions. Conclusions Opportunity exists to augment the relatively low coverage of diabetes health-related messages in print media during Ramadan.
目的 评估斋月期间卡塔尔印刷媒体中与糖尿病护理相关的健康信息。方法 回顾了2012年斋月前6周及斋月期间4周出版的卡塔尔全国性报纸（阿拉伯语和/或英语）。根据四个不同类别确定并描述与健康相关的内容，包括同时涉及糖尿病和斋月的信息。根据突出性的特定特征（代表读者感知的重要性），对描述糖尿病和斋月相结合的文章进行进一步评估。报纸按语言分组，并比较各组之间的报道量和内容。结果 在2012年审查期间共分析了1467份报纸（阿拉伯语781份，英语686份）。在整个研究期间，与健康相关的文章持续出现，但很少有专门与糖尿病相关的（阿拉伯语文章66/1095[6%]，英语文章34/1250[2.7%]；P = 0.008）。仅34/1095（3.1%）份阿拉伯语和23/1250（1.8%）份英语文章（P = 0.05）专门涉及斋月期间的糖尿病管理。20/34（59%，阿拉伯语）和6/23（26%，英语）发表在突出位置。结论 斋月期间印刷媒体中与糖尿病健康相关信息的报道相对较少，存在增加报道的机会。
