Department Education Coordinator, Samsun Mental Health and Diseases Hospital, Samsun, Türkiye.
Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beykent University, İstanbul, Türkiye.
J Ment Health. 2024 Apr;33(2):185-192. doi: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2245908. Epub 2023 Aug 10.
Newspapers that address mental disorders affect health care positively or negatively and can affect the public's perspective with the way they explain mental disorders.
To examine the representation of news about mental disorders published in Turkish newspapers.
Using the document analysis method, 230 news about mental disorders published in the six most read newspapers in 2022 were examined.
It has been concluded that the descriptive characteristics of individuals with mental disorders are often stated, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders are mentioned most, mental disorders are associated with delinquency and violent behaviour, these people are mostly represented by being detained as a result of the events, and negative concepts are frequently used in newspaper reports. Five sub-themes were determined under the main theme of "Negative Concepts": "Exaggerated Discourses", "Stigmatizing Discourses", "Discourses Targeting Mental Health", "Discourses That May Cause Negative Emotions", "Discourses Containing Misdescription".
Newspaper items about mental disorders are represented as stigmatizing and misleading by using negative concepts. The sensitivity of media workers, the development of mental health policies and cooperation with mental health workers contribute to the recovery process of individuals with mental disorders.
报道精神障碍的报纸会对医疗保健产生积极或消极的影响，并且可能会通过解释精神障碍的方式影响公众的观点。
研究土耳其报纸上发表的有关精神障碍的新闻报道。
采用文献分析方法，对 2022 年六家最受欢迎的报纸上发表的 230 篇有关精神障碍的新闻进行了研究。
研究得出结论，报纸上经常会描述精神障碍患者的特征，其中精神分裂症和精神病性障碍被提及最多，精神障碍与犯罪和暴力行为有关，这些人大多因事件而被拘留，报纸报道中经常使用负面概念。在“负面概念”这一主题下确定了五个子主题：“夸大的论述”、“污名化的论述”、“针对心理健康的论述”、“可能引起负面情绪的论述”、“包含错误描述的论述”。
报纸上有关精神障碍的报道使用负面概念，将其描绘为污名化和误导性的。媒体工作者的敏感性、心理健康政策的制定以及与心理健康工作者的合作有助于精神障碍患者的康复过程。
