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Arafat (Bangladesh) Quality of News Reporting of Celebrity Suicide against WHO Guidelines

Lecture / Tutorial for people interested in mental health, suicide, the media and academic psychiatry S. M. Yasir Arafat1,2*, Yasmin Sultana3, Hasina Akter4 Quality of News Reporting of Celebrity Suicide in Bangladesh against World Health Organization Guidelines 1 Department of Psychiatry, Bangladesh Specialized Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2 Senior Research Fellow, Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 3 Department of Sociology, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh. 4 Department of Graduate Nursing, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. *email: [email protected] Received: 2025-01-27; Accepted: 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.52095/gpa.2025.7579.1100 Abstract Background: The quality of media reporting of celebrity suicide affects suicidal behaviour among community populations. However, it has not been assessed in Bangladesh. Objectives: We aimed to assess the quality of news reporting of celebrity suicide in Bangladesh against the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Methods: Online news portals were searched in both Bangla and English languages for news articles that reported the suicide of a Bangladeshi celebrity singer. The quality of the reporting was assessed and compared with the WHO media guidelines. Results: 163 reports with an average of 30 sentences were analysed. 72.4% of reports were published in Bangla, and about 95% of the reports were published within the week of the death. Almost all the reports mentioned the name and occupation of the celebrity, and about 90% of the reports displayed photos of the person. More than 70% of the reports mentioned the method of the suicide attempt. 7.4% mentioned warning signs while 57.7% of the reports mentioned the possibility of depression. 10 (6.1%) reports mentioned expert opinion, and none of the reports mentioned contact information for suicide prevention. Conclusions: The quality of news reporting of celebrity suicide is poor when compared to the WHO guidelines, with a high presence of potentially harmful characteristics, and negligible presence of potentially helpful characteristics. Keywords Celebrity suicide, Bangladesh, Media reporting, Content analysis, WHO guidelines https://globalpsychiatry.co.uk/articl...