The Portrayal of Suicide and Mental Illness: A Province-Wide Survey of Nova Scotia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study tested the feasibility of a surveillance system of the media's portrayal of suicide and mental illness in Nova Scotia. The general public was asked to monitor nonfiction media in the province using standardized checklists over 6 months. The checklists were available on the World Wide Web and various locations in the community, and participants could identify either appropriate or inappropriate coverage. The researchers received 414 submissions covering 366 media items (304 on mental illness and 62 on suicide) during the 6-month survey: 311 from print media and 55 from radio and television. Ratings showed good agreement. On most dimensions, the majority of media items were of good quality. However, details about getting appropriate help were included in only 8.5% of media reports. Items covering suicide were 3.5 times as likely to contain inappropriate content as those on mental illness (95% CI = 1.5–8.0). These results are guiding the development of media guidelines in Nova Scotia. The study also showed that the present methodology can be used to monitor any subsequent effect on the portrayal of mental illness and suicide in the media.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".