ReviewPublic health2013
Analysis of health stories in daily newspapers in the UK.
Review in Public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Are popular books about diet and health written based on scientific evidence? A comparison of citations between the USA and Japan.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Web-Based Content on Diet and Nutrition Written in Japanese: Infodemiology Study Based on Google Trends and Google Search.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Twenty-year follow-up of promising clinical studies reported in highly circulated newspapers: a meta-epidemiological study.BMJ health & care informatics · 2023Article
- UK media reporting of NICE recommendation of crizanlizumab for patients with sickle cell disease.EJHaem · 2023Article
- How Are the Links between Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer Portrayed in Australian Newspapers?: A Paired Thematic and Framing Media Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Content Analysis of Media Coverage of Childhood Obesity Topics in UAE Newspapers and Popular Social Media Platforms, 2014-2017.International journal of health policy and management · 2019Article
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Portrayal by UK National Newspapers 2011-2016: A Service User - Led Thematic Analysis of Language Used.BMC rheumatology · 2018Article
- Quality assessment of nutrition coverage in the media: a 6-week survey of five popular UK newspapers.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Framing diabetes public health information during Ramadan - a newspaper content analysis.The Journal of international medical research · 2017Article
- Drug breakthrough offers hope to arthritis sufferers: qualitative analysis of medical research in UK newspapers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2017Article
- "It's not healthy and it's decidedly not masculine": a media analysis of UK newspaper representations of eating disorders in males.BMJ open · 2015Article
- Health Reporting in Print Media in Lebanon: Evidence, Quality and Role in Informing Policymaking.PloS one · 2015Article
- Primary care nurses' experiences of how the mass media influence frontline healthcare in the UK.BMC family practice · 2013Article
- Prevalence of eating disorders in males: a review of rates reported in academic research and UK mass media.International journal of men's healthArticle
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo assess what makes a good piece of medical reporting in newspapers, to quantify what is being reported on in the major British newspapers, to identify the sources of the news threads, and to assess how these are reported. STUDY
designDevelopment and validation of a tool to assess the quality of reporting of health-related articles, and assessment of the quality of these articles in British newspapers.
methodsEight national daily newspapers from the UK were reviewed for 20 days over a 2-month period. All articles reporting newly emerging research pertaining to health in humans were included and reviewed independently by two raters. A descriptive analysis was performed. Subsequently, a quality assessment tool for use by a non-expert was developed and validated to objectively assess the quality of a newspaper article on a health-related topic.
resultsThe quality assessment tool was found to have good internal consistency and inter-rater reliability. The Daily Mail published almost twice as many articles as its nearest rival, The Daily Express, and over eight times as many articles as The Guardian. Articles in The Times were, on average, more than twice as long as those in The Sun and The Daily Telegraph. The highest quality articles were in The Times and The Independent, with the lowest quality articles in The Sun. The quality scores of anonymous articles were significantly lower than those attributed to named journalists.
conclusionsThere are significant differences in the quality of reporting within and between major daily UK newspapers, with anonymous articles being the poorest quality, and widespread reliance on press releases from the major UK scientific journals.
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