Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effects

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 234-243

  Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas ^a   Voracek, Martin ^b   Herberth, Arno ^b   Till, Benedikt ^b   Strauss, Markus ^a   Etzersdorfer, Elmar ^c   Eisenwort, Brigitte ^d   Sonneck, Gernot ^d  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Furtbach Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MASS MEDIUM; PAPAGENO EFFECT; PRINTING; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; THINKING; VOLUNTARY REPORTING; WERTHER EFFECT;

AUSTRIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MASS MEDIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEWSPAPERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 77956802079     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.074633     Document Type: Article

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