A Short Media Training Session Is Effective in Reinforcing Psychiatrists' Communication Skills About Suicide.

ABSTRACT: Because it has been associated with significant increases [through the Werther Effect (WE)] or decreases [through the Papageno Effect (PE)] of suicide rates, media coverage of suicide-related events is recognized as a prevention leverage. Unfortunately, the recommendations that the World Health Organization (WHO) has published to help journalists reporting on suicide remain poorly applied. The Mini Media Training (MMT) is a short media training session designed to increase psychiatrists' ability to communicate about suicide during interviews. We aimed at assessing the effect of the MMT on psychiatrists' ability to help journalists complying with the WHO recommendations. From June 2017 to December 2019, 173 physicians and residents in psychiatry were recruited during French national congres

SUBMITTER: Walter K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8481656 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature