Zolezzi Monica, Elshami Sara, Obaidi Warda
Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Pharmacy Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2020 Dec 29;13:1323-1332. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S280360. eCollection 2020.
Concerns have been raised about the role of the media influencing the public's understanding of mental illness.
This study explored the extent and nature of mental health coverage in Qatar's newspapers. A secondary aim was to compare the mental health-related coverage with that of diabetes.
This was a retrospective quantitative and qualitative analysis of textual data published in Qatari newspapers. Quantitative descriptive analysis was employed to determine the extent of media coverage while qualitative content analysis was employed to examine the discourse tone and assess the stigmatization of the main messages on the text.
A total of 659 mental health-related articles were published; the main focus of the articles was on autism, depression, and non-pharmacological therapies for mental illness. Analysis of the retrieved articles revealed a predominantly informative content, with mostly non-stigmatizing tone except for non-national news that often linked mental illness with dangerousness or violence. A higher number of articles with mental health-related content than about diabetes were found.
Although the newspaper content analysis revealed mostly a non-stigmatizing tone in mental health reporting in newspapers, there is a need to increase representation of people with mental illness in print media, increase awareness of the diversity of treatments available, and increase more scientific reporting to raise mental health literacy in Qatar.
人们对媒体在影响公众对精神疾病理解方面的作用表示担忧。
本研究探讨了卡塔尔报纸中精神健康报道的程度和性质。次要目的是将与精神健康相关的报道与糖尿病报道进行比较。
这是一项对卡塔尔报纸上发表的文本数据进行回顾性定量和定性分析。采用定量描述性分析来确定媒体报道的程度，同时采用定性内容分析来检查话语语气并评估文本中主要信息的污名化情况。
共发表了659篇与精神健康相关的文章；文章主要关注自闭症、抑郁症以及精神疾病的非药物治疗。对检索到的文章进行分析发现，内容主要是提供信息，除了非本国新闻经常将精神疾病与危险性或暴力联系起来外，大多没有污名化的语气。发现与精神健康相关内容的文章数量多于关于糖尿病的文章。
尽管报纸内容分析显示报纸上的精神健康报道大多没有污名化的语气，但仍有必要增加印刷媒体中精神疾病患者的代表性，提高对可用治疗方法多样性的认识，并增加更多科学报道以提高卡塔尔的精神健康素养。
