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Shrivastava S, Kalra G, Ajinkya S. People see what papers show! Psychiatry's stint with print media: A pilot study from Mumbai, India. Indian J Psychiatry. 2015;57(4):407-11doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.171840.
Shrivastava, S., Kalra, G., & Ajinkya, S. (2015). People see what papers show! Psychiatry's stint with print media: A pilot study from Mumbai, India. Indian journal of psychiatry, 57(4), 407-11. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.171840
Shrivastava, Shivanshu, et al. "People see what papers show! Psychiatry's stint with print media: A pilot study from Mumbai, India." Indian journal of psychiatry vol. 57,4 (2015): 407-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.171840
Shrivastava S, Kalra G, Ajinkya S. People see what papers show! Psychiatry's stint with print media: A pilot study from Mumbai, India. Indian J Psychiatry. 2015 Oct-Dec;57(4):407-11. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.171840. PMID: 26816431; PMCID: PMC4711244.
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Indian J Psychiatry. 2015 Oct-Dec;57(4):407-11. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.171840.

People see what papers show! Psychiatry's stint with print media: A pilot study from Mumbai, India.

Indian journal of psychiatry

Shivanshu Shrivastava, Gurvinder Kalra, Shaunak Ajinkya

Affiliations

  1. Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
  2. Psychiatrist, Flynn High Dependency Unit, La Trobe Regional Hospital (LRH), LRH Mental Health Services, Traralgon, Victoria, Australia.
  3. Department of Psychiatry, MGM Medical College and Hospital, MGM University of Health Sciences, New Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

PMID: 26816431 PMCID: PMC4711244 DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.171840

Abstract

Mass media including television, internet, and newspapers influences public views about various issues by means of how it covers an issue. Newspapers have a wider reach and may affect the impact that a news story has on the reader by factors such as placement of the story within the different pages. We did a pilot study to see how two English newspapers from Mumbai, India were covering psychiatry related news stories. The study was done over a period of 3 months. We found a total of 870 psychiatry related news stories in the two newspapers over 3 months with the majority of them being covered in the main body of the newspapers. Sex-related crime stories and/or sexual dysfunction stories received the highest coverage among all the news while treatment and/or recovery related stories received very little coverage. It is crucial that the print media takes more efforts in improving reporting of psychiatry-related stories and help in de-stigmatizing psychiatry as a discipline.

Keywords: India; mental illness; newspapers; print media; psychiatry

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