News reporting of suicidal behaviour in Nigeria: Adherence assessment to World Health Organization guidelines.
Tosin Philip OyetunjiS M Yasir ArafatFamori Stephen OluwaseyiObafemi OluwasanmiMichael AfolamiFaith Moyo AjayiPublished in: The International journal of social psychiatry (2020)
The study found that Nigeria's online newspapers are poorly adherent to the WHO media reporting guidelines. Explicit descriptions of the person, methods, life events, and mono-causal explanations were frequently published. Negligible initiatives have been found to educate the general people in the reports.