TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Media portrayals and public health implications for suicide and other behaviors
JO  - JAMA Psychiatry
A1  - Vanderweele, Tyler J.
A1  - Mathur, Maya B.
A1  - Chen, Ying
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - <p>Accounts of contagion in suicide abound. For example, Émile Durkheim’s 1897 book Suicide: A Study in Sociology documents multiple striking incidents. We might wonder then whether such contagion extends also to the portrayal of suicide in the media. The evidence is mixed. A recent meta-analysis by Ferguson concluded that “evidence is not able to support the contention that fictional depictions of suicide lead to suicide contagion in viewers.” Yet ...</p>  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2168-622X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0842
ID  - ref1
ER  -