"It's important to manage our stress": Mental health advice in the Australian print news media during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened existing concerns about mental health and illness in Australia. The news media is an important source of health information, but there has been little research into how advice about mental health is communicated to the public via the news media. In this study, we examined how advice about building and maintaining mental health was discursively constructed in the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic. A discourse analytic approach informed by critical discursive psychology was employed to analyse 436 articles published in daily newspapers in Australia between 1 January and 31 December 2020, which contained references to mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic. Three main interpretative repertoires were identified - negative emotions are a risk to menta

SUBMITTER: Horwood G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10029348 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature