2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.054
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The impact of media coverage of the suicide of a well-known Quebec reporter: the case of Gaëtan Girouard

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“…Recent reviews (Pirkis et al 2001 ;Gould et al 2005) and a meta-analysis (Stack, 2000(Stack, , 2005 showed that contagion is likely to occur after heavy media coverage with a content rich in positive definitions of suicide. This phenomenon has been reported in several countries after the suicide of a single personality (Jonas, 1992 ;Sonneck et al 1994 ;Hassan, 1995 ;Tousignant et al 2005 ;Cheng et al 2007 ;Fu & Yip, 2009 ;Chen et al 2010) but has never been systematically assessed and described. The identification of early potential trigger events, however, could be useful to improve existing recommendations to the media.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recent reviews (Pirkis et al 2001 ;Gould et al 2005) and a meta-analysis (Stack, 2000(Stack, , 2005 showed that contagion is likely to occur after heavy media coverage with a content rich in positive definitions of suicide. This phenomenon has been reported in several countries after the suicide of a single personality (Jonas, 1992 ;Sonneck et al 1994 ;Hassan, 1995 ;Tousignant et al 2005 ;Cheng et al 2007 ;Fu & Yip, 2009 ;Chen et al 2010) but has never been systematically assessed and described. The identification of early potential trigger events, however, could be useful to improve existing recommendations to the media.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, after the widely publicized death of a well-known journalist in Quebec, there was an excess of 200 suicide deaths (14% increase) in the province that year above what would have been expected based on yearly rates before and after. 9 Intriguingly, there is also preliminary evidence that media reports focusing on people mastering suicidal crises -that is, people contemplating suicide but instead finding alternatives, such as seeking treatmentappear to be associated with subsequent decreases in rates of suicide. 6 This phenomenon has been named the Papageno effect after a character in Mozart's "Magic Flute" who was convinced to abandon a suicide attempt.…”
Section: Perspectives Of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Expertsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…: Romer et al, 2006 ;Tousignant et al, 2005 ;Etzerdorfer et al, 2004 ;Frei et al, 2003 ;Schmidtke et Schaller, 1998 ;Stack, 1996 ;Hassan, 1995 ;Jonas, 1992 ;Fekete et Macsai, 1990 ;Berman, 1988 ;Gould et al, 1988 ;Schmidtke et Häfner, 1988 ;Stack, 1987 ;Gould et Shaffer, 1986 ;Phillips et Cartensen, 1986 ;Bollen et Phillips, 1982 ;Phillips, 1974). Toutefois, un nombre plus restreint d'études ne rapportent pas une telle association, par exemple l'étude de Littmann (1985) qui s'appuie sur une méthode très différente et l'étude de Kessler et ses collègues (1988), qui s'avère une contre-vérification de la recherche de Phillips et Carstensen (1986), mais qui comporte des modifications au niveau de plusieurs des paramètres d'analyse.…”
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“…L'association apparaît plus fré-quemment dans le cadre des études portant sur les reportages qui présentent des cas de suicide réels dans la presse écrite, que lorsqu'il s'agit d'études portant sur un autre type de média ou portant sur des cas fictifs. De plus, « l'effet Werther » ne semble pas se limiter à un contexte culturel particulier, puisqu'il a été observé dans plusieurs cultures, dont en Hongrie (Fekete et Macsai, 1990), en Allemagne (Schmidtke et Häfner, 1988), au Québec (Tousignant et al, 2005), en Chine (Yip et al, 2006), en Australie (Hassan, 1995 ;Pirkis et al, 2006), au Japon (Stack, 1996) et aux États-Unis (Phillips et Carstensen, 1986). Cependant, cela ne signifie pas pour autant que la culture n'a pas d'impact sur le phénomène.…”
Section: Ce Que Les Données Scientifiques Disent Au Sujet Du Lien Entunclassified
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