Background: Newspapers that address mental disorders affect health care positively or negatively and can affect the public's perspective with the way they explain mental disorders.
Aims: To examine the representation of news about mental disorders published in Turkish newspapers.
Methods: Using the document analysis method, 230 news about mental disorders published in the six most read newspapers in 2022 were examined.
Results: It has been concluded that the descriptive characteristics of individuals with mental disorders are often stated, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders are mentioned most, mental disorders are associated with delinquency and violent behaviour, these people are mostly represented by being detained as a result of the events, and negative concepts are frequently used in newspaper reports. Five sub-themes were determined under the main theme of "Negative Concepts": "Exaggerated Discourses", "Stigmatizing Discourses", "Discourses Targeting Mental Health", "Discourses That May Cause Negative Emotions", "Discourses Containing Misdescription".
Conclusions: Newspaper items about mental disorders are represented as stigmatizing and misleading by using negative concepts. The sensitivity of media workers, the development of mental health policies and cooperation with mental health workers contribute to the recovery process of individuals with mental disorders.
Background: Aggression in inpatients with psychotic disorders is harmful to patients and health care professionals.
Aims: The current study introduces a novel approach for assessing short-term sequences of different types of aggression.
Methods: Occurrence and type of aggressive behavior was assessed retrospectively by reviewing hospital charts in a sample of 120 inpatients with psychotic disorders, admitted to the psychiatric wards of an academic hospital using the Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS). Behavioral sequences of verbal aggression, physical aggression against objects, physical aggression against oneself and physical aggression against others were analyzed by using Markov models, a statistical technique providing the probabilities of transferring from one state to another.
Results: The Markov models showed that when patients behave aggressively, they are likely to either show the same type of aggression or to be non-aggressive consecutively. Patients are, however, unlikely to subsequently show another type of aggression. Non-aggressive behavior is very unlikely to result in physical aggression or aggression against objects.
Conclusion: The current study introduced a novel approach on how to investigate aggressive behavior in patients with psychotic disorders. Replication of our results in a bigger sample is needed to reliably develop a day-to-day risk assessment tool for aggressive behavior.
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