Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010–2015)? A transitivity analysis

Collins, Luke; Jaspal, Rusi; Nerlich, Brigitte

doi:10.1177/1363459317715777

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“…This observed focus on societal rather than individual responsibility is consistent with other reports (e.g. Evensen & Clarke, 2012;Collins, Jaspal & Nerlich, 2017). Certain facts that would be important for all citizens to know, such as the inefficiency of antibiotics toward viruses or the importance of completing a course of treatment as prescribed by the physician, were reported to a very low extent.…”

Section: Evolutionary Explanations For Antibiotic Resistancesupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Bie, Tang and Treise (2016) compared the coverage of NDM-1 in Indian, British and American newspapers and found that reporting in the UK and US contained higher levels of dread (emotionally loaded words, infection consequences) and controllability (by providing personal protection measures) than the reporting in Indian newspapers. A study that applied a linguistic transitivity analysis to UK press concluded that no sense of individual responsibility was reported, but rather that the problem was directed to society as a whole (Collins, Jaspal & Nerlich, 2017).…”

Section: Newspaper Reporting On Antibiotic Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Evolving germs – Antibiotic resistance and natural selection in education and public communication

Bohlin¹

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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics threatens modern healthcare on a global scale. Several actors in society, including the general public, must become more involved if this development is to be countered. The conveyance of relevant information provided through education and media reports is therefore of high concern. Antibiotic resistance evolves through the mechanisms of natural selection; in this way, a sound understanding of these mechanisms underlies explanations of causes and the development of effective risk-reduction measures. In addition to natural selection functioning as an explanatory framework to antibiotic resistance, bacterial resistance as a context seems to possess a number of qualities that make it suitable for teaching natural selection -a subject that has been proven notoriously hard to teach and learn. A recently suggested approach for learning natural selection involves so-called threshold concepts, which encompass abstract and integrative ideas. The threshold concepts associated with natural selection include, among others, the notions of randomness as well as vast spatial and temporal scales. Illustrating complex relationships between concepts on different levels of organization is one, of several, areas where visualizations are efficient. Given the often-imperceptible nature of threshold concepts as well as the fact that natural selection processes occur on different organizational levels, visual accounts of natural selection have many potential benefits for learning.Against this background, the present dissertation explores information conveyed to the public regarding antibiotic resistance and natural selection, as well as investigates how these topics are presented together, by scrutinizing media including news reports, websites, educational textbooks and online videos. The principal method employed in the media studies was content analysis, which was complemented with various other analytical procedures. Moreover, a classroom study was performed, in which novice pupils worked with a series of animations explaining the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Data from individual written assignments, group questions and video-recorded discussions were collected and analyzed to empirically explore the potential of antibiotic resistance as a context for learning about evolution through natural selection.Among the findings are that certain information, that is crucial for the public to know, about antibiotic resistance was conveyed to a low extent through wide-reaching news reporting. Moreover, explanations based on natural selection were rarely included in accounts of antibiotic resistance in any of the examined media. Thus, it is highly likely that a large proportion of the population is never exposed to explanations for resistance development ii during education or through newspapers. Furthermore, the few examples that were encountered in newspapers or textbooks were hardly ever visualized, but presented only in textual form. With regard to videos purporting to explain natural selec...

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Section: Evolutionary Explanations For Antibiotic Resistancesupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Newspaper Reporting On Antibiotic Resistancementioning

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Evolving germs – Antibiotic resistance and natural selection in education and public communication

Bohlin¹

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“…For England, we supplemented archival data of previous research conducted by the research team [6], [19], which resulted in 322 textual sources being retrieved and analysed for (a)-(c). We did not conduct analysis for media materials for England in this study, as this has been captured elsewhere in recent years [20], [21] with a frequency of reporting 'AMR'/'antibiotic resistance' and 'superbug' in the media averaging at up to 4.7 per month in popular and broadsheet newspapers between 2010-15 [22].…”

Section: (Ii) Assessment Of the Health Policy Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of national strategies to reduce meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Japan and England

Mizuno

Iwami

Kunisawa

et al. 2018

Journal of Hospital Infection

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Background: National responses to healthcare-associated infections vary between high-income countries but when analysed for contextual comparability, interventions can be assessed for transferability. Aim: To identify learning from country-level approaches to addressing meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Japan and England. Methods: A longitudinal analysis (2000-17), comparing epidemiological trends and policy interventions. Data from 441 textual sources concerning infection prevention and control (IPC), surveillance, and antimicrobial stewardship interventions were systematically coded for: typemandatory requirements, recommendations, or national campaigns; method-restrictive, persuasive, structural in nature; level of implementation-macro (national), meso (organisational), micro (individual) levels. Healthcare organisational structures and role of media were also assessed. Findings: In England significant reduction has been achieved in number of reported MRSA bloodstream infections. In Japan, in spite of reductions, MRSA remains a predominant infection. Both countries face new threats in the emergence of drug-resistant Escherichia coli. England has focused on national mandatory and structural interventions, supported by a combination of outcomes-based incentives and punitive mechanisms, and multidisciplinary IPC hospital teams. Japan has focused on (non-mandatory) recommendations and primarily persuasive interventions, supported by process-based incentives, with voluntary surveillance. Areas for development in Japan include resourcing of dedicated data management support and implementation of national campaigns for healthcare professionals and the public. Conclusion: Policy interventions need to be relevant to local epidemiological trends, while acceptable within health system cultures and public expectations. Cross-national learning can help inform the right mix of interventions to create sustainable and resilient systems for future infection and economic challenges.

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“…Indeed, the high prevalence of antibiotic resistance tends to correlate with low levels of public awareness about AMR [9]. Given the role of the media as the main source of information concerning health and science [5,10,11], understanding media conversations about antibiotics and AMR may be crucial for policymakers and public health experts when planning strategies to address this issue.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What we know about media communication on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance: A systematic review of the scientific literature

Catalán-Matamoros

Pariente

Elías-Pérez

2019

Patient Education and Counseling

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Systematically review the literature regarding media communication about antibiotics and anti-microbial resistance (AMR) to synthesise its key characteristics and impact effectiveness, identifying gaps and areas for further research. Methods: A comprehensive systematic review covering five international databases for articles published between 1 st September 2008 and 1 st September 2018 was performed using the registered protocol (PROSPERO: CRD42018116464). The search using terms related to media communication and antibiotics or AMR yielded 19 eligible studies, which were analysed and qualitatively synthesised. Results: Research on media communication regarding antibiotics or AMR has rapidly increased in the last decade. 74% of studies used a media content analysis method, while the remaining studies collected data via surveys. Print media were examined in 53% (n = 10), with 74% (n = 14) focused on English language media. Conclusion: Currently, knowledge regarding media communication of antibiotics and AMR is very restricted to English-speaking print media. Further research is required to understand communication on this topic from other media (types and geographical regions) as well as how media effects attitude and behaviour change. Practice implications: Better understanding of media communication regarding antibiotics and AMR may be crucial for policymakers and public health experts when planning strategies to tackle this issue.

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Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010–2015)? A transitivity analysis

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

Evolving germs – Antibiotic resistance and natural selection in education and public communication

Evolving germs – Antibiotic resistance and natural selection in education and public communication

Comparison of national strategies to reduce meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Japan and England

What we know about media communication on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance: A systematic review of the scientific literature

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