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

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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

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  • Table 1. The impact of suicide news reporting (charcoal burning and non-charcoal burning respectively) in the previous day on suicide incidence in the following day in Taiwan, 1998–2002.
  • Table 2. The impact of actual suicides (charcoal burning and non-charcoal burning) on news reporting of charcoal burning and non-charcoal burning suicide in the next day.

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Chen, Y. Y., Chen, F., Gunnell, D., & Yip, P. S. F. (2013). The Impact of Media Reporting on the Emergence of Charcoal Burning Suicide in Taiwan. PLoS ONE, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055000

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