Measuring Public Reaction to Violence Against Doctors in China: Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Media Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Violence against doctors in China is a serious problem that has attracted attention from both domestic and international media.

Objective

This study investigates readers' responses to media reports on violence against doctors to identify attitudes toward perpetrators and physicians and examine if such trends are influenced by national policies.

Methods

We searched 17 Chinese violence against doctors reports in international media sources from 2011 to 2020. We then tracked back the original reports and web crawled the 19,220 comments in China. To ascertain the possible turning point of public opinion, we searched violence against doctors-related policies from Tsinghua University ipolicy database from 2011 to 2020, and found 19 policies enacted by the Chinese

SUBMITTER: Yang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7925148 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature