Htay Mila Nu Nu, Arafat S M Yasir
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
Department of Community Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Melaka, Malaysia.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2021 Nov-Dec;63(6):597-600. doi: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_285_21. Epub 2021 Dec 3.
Media reporting of suicide has an essential role in the suicidal behavior of the general population.
The aim of this study is to assess the quality of online news reports of suicidal behavior in Myanmar against the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting guidelines.
We performed a content analysis of all available suicide-related news reports published in vernacular online newspapers of Myanmar.
A total of 285 reports were analyzed, consisting of 87.4% suicides and 12.6% nonfatal suicidal attempts. Potentially, harmful information reported in the text includes the methods of suicide (100%), the word or term in Burmese related to suicide (89.5%), the name of the person (56.5%), life event (50.5%), and photo or suicidal person (17.9%). Meanwhile, helpful information such as prevention programs and the contact information for suicide services to the readers have been infrequently reported.
The study found that the newspaper reporting of suicide in Myanmar is grossly nonadherent to the WHO media guidelines.
媒体对自杀事件的报道在普通人群的自杀行为中起着重要作用。
本研究旨在根据世界卫生组织（WHO）的报道指南，评估缅甸在线新闻报道中自杀行为的质量。
我们对缅甸当地在线报纸上发布的所有与自杀相关的新闻报道进行了内容分析。
共分析了285篇报道，其中自杀报道占87.4%，非致命自杀未遂报道占12.6%。报道文本中潜在的有害信息包括自杀方法（100%）、缅甸语中与自杀相关的词汇（89.5%）、人名（56.5%）、生活事件（50.5%）以及自杀者照片（17.9%）。与此同时，很少有报道向读者提供诸如预防项目和自杀服务联系信息等有用信息。
研究发现，缅甸报纸对自杀事件的报道严重不符合WHO的媒体指南。
