Titre :
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The impact of media reporting of suicide on actual suicides in Taiwan, 2002-05. (2011)
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Auteurs :
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CHEN (Ying-Yeh) : TWN. Taipei City Psychiatric Centre. Taipei City Hospital. Taipei. ;
FENG CHEN (.) : AUS. Department of Statistics. University of New South Wales. New South Wales. ;
YIP (Paul-Sf) : HKG. Hong Kong Jockey Club Center for Suicide Research and Prevention. University of Hong Kong.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Journal of epidemiology and community health (vol. 65, n° 10, 2011)
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Pagination :
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934-940
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Média
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Suicide
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Homme
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Taiwan
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Asie
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0x8rpGI. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives To assess changes in the intensity of suicide news reporting in Taiwan's local newspapers after the arrival of a daily tabloid-type newspaper, Apple Daily (AD), and evaluate the impact of suicide news reporting on actual suicides and possible mutual causation. Methods A counting process was used to estimate the intensity of daily suicide news items reported in the China Times (CT) and United Daily (UD) before and after the arrival of AD (2002-05). Poisson regression models were used to assess the impact of the intensity of suicide news reporting on the actual number of next day suicides. Granger's causation model was used to assess mutual causation between suicide news reporting and actual suicides. Results There was a significant increase in reporting intensity of suicide news in the UD soon after the entry of the AD into Taiwan's media market, while a delayed increase of approximately 1 year was observed in the CT. After the arrival of the AD, the reporting intensity in the UD was significantly related to the occurrence of actual suicides (p
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