The Impact of Media Reporting on the Emergence of Charcoal Burning Suicide in Taiwan

Ying-Yeh Chen, Feng Chen, David Gunnell and Paul S F Yip

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: We investigated the association of the intensity of newspaper reporting of charcoal burning suicide with the incidence of such deaths in Taiwan during 1998–2002. A counting process approach was used to estimate the incidence of suicides and intensity of news reporting. Conditional Poisson generalized linear autoregressive models were performed to assess the association of the intensity of newspaper reporting of charcoal burning and non-charcoal burning suicides with the actual number of charcoal burning and non-charcoal burning suicides the following day. We found that increases in the reporting of charcoal burning suicide were associated with increases in the incidence of charcoal burning suicide on the following day, with each reported charcoal burning news item being associated with a 16% increase in next day charcoal burning suicide (p

Date: 2013
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