TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - People see what papers show! Psychiatry's stint with print media: A pilot study from Mumbai, India
JO  - Indian journal of psychiatry
A1  - Shrivastava, S.
A1  - Kalra, G.
A1  - Ajinkya, S.
SP  - 407
EP  - 411
VL  - 57
IS  - 4
N2  - Mass media including television, internet, and newspapers influences public views about various issues by means of how it covers an issue. Newspapers have a wider reach and may affect the impact that a news story has on the reader by factors such as placement of the story within the different pages. We did a pilot study to see how two English newspapers from Mumbai, India were covering psychiatry related news stories. The study was done over a period of 3 months. We found a total of 870 psychiatry related news stories in the two newspapers over 3 months with the majority of them being covered in the main body of the newspapers. Sex-related crime stories and/or sexual dysfunction stories received the highest coverage among all the news while treatment and/or recovery related stories received very little coverage. It is crucial that the print media takes more efforts in improving reporting of psychiatry-related stories and help in de-stigmatizing psychiatry as a discipline. © 2015 Indian Journal of Psychiatry | Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0019-5545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.171840
ID  - ref1
ER  -