School for Mass Communication Research, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Communication Science and Media Research, University of Munich (LMU), Germany.
Crisis. 2019 Nov;40(6):446-450. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000584. Epub 2019 Apr 2.
There is limited knowledge about the effects of a workshop intervention on responsible reporting on suicide (RRS) by media professionals. The study aimed to test how a workshop can shape reporting-relevant attitudes and beliefs among media professionals. A pre-postintervention survey of Swiss media professionals ( = 26, 55.7% male, = 38.1, = 12.8, all Swiss nationals) was conducted. All participants received the same intervention and survey questions. The analytical focus was on within-person changes caused by the workshop intervention. Among media professionals, the workshop intervention increased perceived knowledge sufficiency about RRS, raised awareness that RRS can save lives, decreased insecurities related to RRS, and reduced the misperception that there are no clear recommendations about RRS. Despite the missing randomization of workshop participants, the repeated measures design allows to speak to the short-term changes in RRS. An RRS workshop intervention has multifaceted positive effects on media professionals. The study found no evidence for unintended effects of the intervention.
关于工作坊干预对媒体专业人员负责任报道自杀（RRS）的影响，我们知之甚少。本研究旨在测试工作坊如何影响媒体专业人员的报道相关态度和信念。对瑞士媒体专业人员（n=26，男性占 55.7%，平均年龄为 38.1 岁，标准差为 12.8，均为瑞士籍）进行了一项干预前后的调查。所有参与者都接受了相同的干预和调查问题。分析重点是工作坊干预引起的个体内变化。在媒体专业人员中，工作坊干预提高了对 RRS 的知识充足感，提高了对 RRS 可以拯救生命的认识，降低了与 RRS 相关的不安全感，并减少了对 RRS 没有明确建议的误解。尽管工作坊参与者没有进行随机分组，但重复测量设计可以说明 RRS 的短期变化。RRS 工作坊干预对媒体专业人员有多种积极影响。研究没有发现干预的意外影响的证据。
