Influences of the media on suicide

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7377, 2002, Pages 1374-1375

  Hawton, Keith ^a   Williams, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 0037079424     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1374     Document Type: Editorial

References (12)

1. Pirkis J, Blood RW. Suicide and the Media: A Critical Review. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, 2001.
2. Baume P, Cantor CH, Rolfe A. Cybersuicide: The role of interactive suicide notes on the internet. Crisis 1997;18:73-9.
3. Alao AO, Yolles JC, Armenta W. Cybersuicide: The internet and suicide. Am J Psychiatry 1999; 156: 1836-7.
4. Phillips DP. The influence of suggestion on suicide: Substantive and theoretical implications of the Werther effect. Am Sociol Rev 1974;39:340-54.
5. Hawton K, Simkin S, Deeks JJ, O'Connor S, Keen A, Altman DG, et al. Effects of a drug overdose in a television drama on presentations to hospital for self poisoning: Time series and questionnaire study. BMJ 1999;318:972-7.
6. Stack S. Celebrities and suicide: A taxonomy and analysis. Am Social Rev 1987;52:401-12.
7. Fishman G, Weimann G. Motives to commit suicide: Statistical versus mass-mediated reality. Arch Suicide Res 1997;3:199-212.
8. Department of Health. National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England. London: Department of Health, 2002.
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, Office of the Surgeon General. Reporting on suicide: Recommendations for the media. Suicide Life Threat Behav 2002;32:vii-xiii. www.afsp.org/education/recommendations/index.html (accessed 24 Oct 2002).
10. Samaritans. Media Guidelines. Portrayals of Suicide. Ewell: Samaritans, 2002. www.Samaritans.org/know/media_guide.shtm (accessed 24 Oct 2002).
11. Michel K, Frey C, Wyss K, Valach L. An exercise in improving suicide reporting in print media. Crisis 2000;21:1-10.
12. Etzersdorfer E, Sonneck G. Preventing suicide by influencing mass-media reporting. The Viennese experience 1980-1996. Arch Suicide Res 1998:4:67-74.