Media Coverage of a Celebrity Suicide Could Bring a Large-scale Copycat Effect

Media coverage of the suicide of a national actress in South Korea and its impact on subsequent suicides was analysed by researchers. They found that the number of suicide-related articles surged around 80 times in the week after a suicide compared with the week prior. Many articles (37.1%) violated several critical items on the World Health Organization suicide reporting guidelines, like containing a detailed suicide method. The investigators estimated that there ...

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