Deparment of Psychiatry, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico de Valencia (INCLIVA), Valencia, Spain.
BMC Psychiatry. 2023 Aug 10;23(1):579. doi: 10.1186/s12888-023-05054-7.
The media portrayal of mental health is relevant in shaping the population's attitudes towards mental disorders. However, there is little information about the representation of young mental health issues in the Spanish-language press, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The general objective of this study was to analyse the tone and content of Spanish newspaper articles about mental disorders in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We collected media articles from the 10 most read news sources over a 6 month period (January-June 2021). These articles were coded for content using a standardised codebook, followed by an inductive thematic analysis. A total of 205 news items were evaluated.
Results showed that the majority of the news items had an overall positive tone (68.3%), only 5.4% were stigmatising and only 7.3% were related to violence. However, few articles offered help seeking information (6%), adolescents were rarely quoted (14%) and children were never quoted. Substantial differences are described in terms of age, gender and disorder. The thematic analysis led to three emergent themes: (i) violence and victimisation; (ii) the COVID-19 pandemic; and (iii) technology and social media.
The percentage of news in the Spanish media that refer to young people's mental health in a stigmatising way or in a way associated with violence is very low. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic may have promoted more positive discussion about youth mental health. However, major challenges remain to be addressed, as patients are seldom quoted, very few articles offer help-seeking information, and a narrative of victimisation without appropriate discussion of resilience regularly occurs.
媒体对心理健康的描绘与塑造公众对精神障碍的态度有关。然而，关于西班牙语媒体对青年心理健康问题的报道，尤其是在 COVID-19 大流行背景下的报道，信息很少。本研究的总体目标是分析西班牙报纸在 COVID-19 大流行期间关于青年精神障碍的文章的语气和内容。
我们在 6 个月的时间内（2021 年 1 月至 6 月）从 10 个最受欢迎的新闻来源中收集了媒体文章。这些文章使用标准化的编码手册进行内容编码，然后进行归纳主题分析。共评估了 205 篇新闻报道。
结果表明，大多数新闻报道的语气总体上是积极的（68.3%），只有 5.4%是污名化的，只有 7.3%与暴力有关。然而，很少有文章提供寻求帮助的信息（6%），很少有青少年（14%）被引用，儿童则从未被引用。在年龄、性别和障碍方面存在显著差异。主题分析产生了三个主题：（i）暴力和受害；（ii）COVID-19 大流行；（iii）技术和社交媒体。
西班牙媒体中提到年轻人心理健康的新闻报道以污名化或以与暴力相关的方式出现的比例非常低。此外，COVID-19 大流行可能促进了更多关于青年心理健康的积极讨论。然而，仍存在重大挑战需要解决，因为患者很少被引用，很少有文章提供寻求帮助的信息，而且经常出现没有适当讨论恢复力的受害叙述。
