Resumen

SANTOS, Teresa  y  CAMACHO, Idoia. Consummate suicide and representation of its triggering factors in the Spanish general press in 2017. Comun. medios [online]. 2019, vol.28, n.40, pp.28-41. ISSN 0716-3991.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5354/0719-1529.2019.53844.

This article focuses on the analysis of the informative treatment that the Spanish newspapers El País, ABC, El Mundo and La Razón gave to the consummate suicide, more precisely to the triggering factors, from the 1st of January to the 31st of December of 2017. Applying a methodology of content analysis, the results show that the analyzed journals pose the subject of suicide consummated as the solution to a problem and also include details such as the mechanism used and the suicide note. It could say that some cases are sensationalists. The information reflects the actual suicide data, but moves away from WHO’s indications to treat the issue from a more comprehensive and less newsworthy perspective.

Palabras clave : Suicide; Spain; press; motives suicide; mechanism used.

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