Quality of online news reporting of suicidal behavior in Myanmar: Adherence to the World Health Organization reporting guidelines

a:5:{i:0;s:112:"Background: Media reporting of suicide has an essential role in the suicidal behavior of the general population.";i:1;s:173:"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.";i:2;s:140:"Methods: We performed a content analysis of all available suicide-related news reports published in vernacular online newspapers of Myanmar.";i:3;s:509:"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.";i:4;s:130:"Conclusion: The study found that the newspaper reporting of suicide in Myanmar is grossly nonadherent to the WHO media guidelines.";}