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

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  • Ying-Yeh Chen
  • Feng Chen
  • David Gunnell
  • Paul S F Yip

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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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  • Ying-Yeh Chen & Feng Chen & David Gunnell & Paul S F Yip, 2013. "The Impact of Media Reporting on the Emergence of Charcoal Burning Suicide in Taiwan," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(1), pages 1-6, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0055000
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055000
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    1. Qijin Cheng & Feng Chen & Paul S F Yip, 2017. "Media effects on suicide methods: A case study on Hong Kong 1998-2005," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(4), pages 1-12, April.
    2. Qijin Cheng & Shu-Sen Chang & Yingqi Guo & Paul S F Yip, 2015. "Information Accessibility of the Charcoal Burning Suicide Method in Mainland China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(10), pages 1-15, October.
    3. Zhan, Xiu-Xiu & Liu, Chuang & Sun, Gui-Quan & Zhang, Zi-Ke, 2018. "Epidemic dynamics on information-driven adaptive networks," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 196-204.
    4. Carlos Alfonso Tovilla-Zárate & Sherezada Pool García & Isela E Juárez-Rojop & Thelma Beatriz González-Castro & Lilia López-Narváez, 2017. "Necessity of Internet regulation to prevent suicides in Mexico," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 63(4), pages 376-377, June.
    5. Jan Domaradzki, 2021. "The Werther Effect, the Papageno Effect or No Effect? A Literature Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(5), pages 1-20, March.

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