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January 22, 2026Industrial Psychiatry JournalOpen Access

Media reporting of suicide in newspapers of Central India: An archive-based content analysis

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VNVijay NiranjanPJPriyash JainVMVarchasvi Mudgal

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Overview

Content analysis evaluates adherence to suicide reporting guidelines in Hindi and English newspapers, highlighting implications for public behavior.

Key Points

  • The aim is to evaluate how well newspapers adhere to suicide reporting guidelines in Central India.
  • Cross-sectional content analysis of suicide-related news items
  • Analysis of articles published in one Hindi and one English daily
  • Coding based on World Health Organization guidelines
  • Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s Chi-square tests for data analysis
  • Harmful reporting elements predominant in articles: name in 91.8%, location in 80%, method in 58.2%
  • Only 12.7% of articles provided prevention information
  • Hindi reports included more harmful content and lacked prevention info compared to English reports (P < 0.05)

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Niranjan et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6971be2c642b1836717e2cechttps://doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_227_25
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