@article{ref1,
title="Quality of online news reporting of suicidal behavior in Myanmar: adherence to the World Health Organization reporting guidelines",
journal="Indian journal of psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Marthoenis,  and Htay, Mila Nu Nu and Arafat, S. M. Yasir",
volume="63",
number="6",
pages="597-600",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Media reporting of suicide has an essential role in the suicidal behavior of the general population. AIMS: 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. <br><br>METHODS: We performed a content analysis of all available suicide-related news reports published in vernacular online newspapers of Myanmar. <br><br>RESULTS: 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. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The study found that the newspaper reporting of suicide in Myanmar is grossly nonadherent to the WHO media guidelines.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0019-5545",
doi="10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_285_21",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_285_21"
}