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Florian Arendt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Investigating the Negation of Media Stereotypes
Journal of Media Psychology, 2019Co-Authors: Florian ArendtAbstract:Abstract. We investigated the negation of media stereotypes. Negation refers to an internal attempt to negate stereotypic content (“No! This is not true!”). The process of negation is important because a critical assessment of stereotypic content can be beneficial for stereotype and prejudice reduction. This fact is a crucial reason why readers’ disagreement regarding simplified stereotypic depictions is of central interest for mass communication research and media literacy campaigns. Importantly, factors that can increase negation are of special interest. Although the ability and motivation to process stereotypic content can be theoretically identified as potential influencing factors, media-stereotype research has not yet tested the influence of these factors on negation. In Experiment 1 (N = 347), we manipulated the motivation to negate by presenting Awareness Material. We informed some of the participants that the news media often do not represent the world as it is, but sometimes do so in a stereotyp...
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Effects of Awareness Material on suicide-related knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to suicidal individuals
Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 2017Co-Authors: Florian Arendt, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Sebastian Scherr, Sabrina Krallmann, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract. Background: Little is known about the impact of educative media reports on the intention to provide help to suicidal individuals and on suicide-related knowledge. Aims: To test whether Material debunking widely shared myths influences knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to others, and if such information reduces reading enjoyment. Method: A randomized controlled trial was utilized. Participants allocated to the intervention group were exposed to Awareness Material explicitly addressing suicide myths. Results: Analyses show that exposure to printed Awareness Material increased knowledge, which in turn positively influenced intentions to provide help. The inclusion of information regarding suicide myths did not reduce reading enjoyment. Limitations: The Awareness Material used in this study only addressed two suicide myths that were considered to be especially important. Conclusion: Information debunking suicide myths in suicide-related media reports is therefore both feasible and...
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Supporting Reporting: On the Positive Effects of Text- and Video-Based Awareness Material on Responsible Journalistic Suicide News Writing
Archives of Suicide Research, 2016Co-Authors: Sebastian Scherr, Florian Arendt, Markus SchäferAbstract:Suicide is a global public health problem. Media impact on suicide is well confirmed and there are several recommendations on how media should and should not report on suicide to minimize the risk of copycat behavior. Those media guidelines have been developed to improve responsible reporting on suicide (RRS). Although such guidelines are used in several countries, we lack empirical evidence on their causal effect on actual journalistic news writing. We conducted an experiment with journalism students (N = 78) in Germany in which we tested whether exposure to Awareness Material promoting RRS influences news writing. As a supplement to the widely used text-based Material, we tested the impact of a video in which a suicide expert presents the guidelines. A video was used as a supplement to text partly due to its potential benefit for prevention efforts over the Internet. We chose a low-budget production process allowing easy reproduction in different countries by local suicide experts. In the experiment, participants were either exposed to written, audio-visual, or no Awareness Material. Afterwards, participants read numerous facts of an ostensible suicide event and were asked to write a factual suicide news story based on these facts. Analyses indicate that Awareness Material exposure helped to improve RRS with the Awareness video showing the strongest effects. We recommend that suicide prevention should use instructive Awareness videos about RRS complementary to text-based Awareness Material.
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Predicting Intentions to Read Suicide Awareness Stories. The Role of Depression and Characteristics of the Suicidal Role Model.
Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Florian Arendt, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract. Background: Research on factors that influence the intention to read suicide Awareness Material is lacking. Aims: To identify how social and state similarities between the featured protagonist of a suicide Awareness story and the audience impact on the intent to read similar stories. Method: Laboratory experiment with n = 104 students. Participants were randomly assigned to study groups. In the first group, the role model provided his personal story of crisis and was a student. In the second group, the content was identical but the model was socially dissimilar. The third group read about a topic unrelated to suicide. Depression, identification, and exposure intent were measured after the experiment. Conditional process analysis was carried out. Results: In the group featuring a once-suicidal role model with high social similarity, depression in the audience increased the intention to read similar Material in the future via identification with the role model; 82% of individuals wanted to read si...
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Effects of Suicide Awareness Material on Implicit Suicide Cognition: A Laboratory Experiment.
Health Communication, 2015Co-Authors: Florian Arendt, Benedikt Till, Thomas NiederkrotenthalerAbstract:In spite of the increasing adoption of suicide Awareness campaigns to prevent suicide, little is known about the effective construction of Awareness messages used and on their impact on suicidal cognition. We hypothesized that media reporting on an individual overcoming a suicidal crisis increases the automatic association between "life" and self. University students (N = 112) were randomly allocated to one of three groups in a laboratory experiment. Participants allocated to treatment group 1 or group 2 read Awareness Material about a person coping with suicidal ideation by getting professional help. The only difference between the two groups was the amount of social similarity (low vs. high) between the protagonist and the participants. The control group read an article unrelated to suicide. Awareness Material increased implicit cognition in terms of a strengthening of self-life associations. This effect was restricted to participants scoring low on wishful identification with the suicidal protagonist. This finding suggests that only individuals who do not wishfully identify with a protagonist going through difficult life circumstances benefit from the Awareness Material in terms of suicidal cognition. These findings provide a rich basis for further research and have potentially high relevance to the construction of suicide-Awareness messages.
Benedikt Till - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Effects of Awareness Material featuring individuals with experience of depression and suicidal thoughts on an audience with depressive symptoms: Randomized controlled trial
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2019Co-Authors: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract Background and objective Suicide prevention plans support individuals with personal experience of mental disorders and suicidality to provide their narratives of coping in the media. The evidence how such portrayals impact on individuals with similar symptoms is limited and there are concerns about unwanted side effects. Methods This was a double-blinded randomized controlled online trial conducted from August to November 2018. N = 158 young adults aged 18–24 with current depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts were randomized to watch a short film featuring a young individual with personal experience of depression and suicidality (n = 81), or a thematically unrelated control film (n = 77) with similar stylistic elements. Questionnaire data were collected before and immediately after exposure and analysed with ANOVA. The primary outcome was suicidal ideation; secondary outcomes were depressed mood and help-seeking intentions. We also tested the moderating effects of the degree of depressive symptoms on the effects. Results Depressed mood was significantly lower, with small-to medium effect size, in the intervention group compared to the control group (F(1,111) = 4.13, P Limitations Self-reported variables in an online setting. Conclusions Videos featuring personal experience of coping with depression appear safe for young individuals with similar or higher symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation on the short run, and might have some benefits. Trial registration German Clinical Trial Registry, DRKS00015095 (registration date: 2018-07-16).
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Effects of Awareness Material on suicide-related knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to suicidal individuals
Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 2017Co-Authors: Florian Arendt, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Sebastian Scherr, Sabrina Krallmann, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract. Background: Little is known about the impact of educative media reports on the intention to provide help to suicidal individuals and on suicide-related knowledge. Aims: To test whether Material debunking widely shared myths influences knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to others, and if such information reduces reading enjoyment. Method: A randomized controlled trial was utilized. Participants allocated to the intervention group were exposed to Awareness Material explicitly addressing suicide myths. Results: Analyses show that exposure to printed Awareness Material increased knowledge, which in turn positively influenced intentions to provide help. The inclusion of information regarding suicide myths did not reduce reading enjoyment. Limitations: The Awareness Material used in this study only addressed two suicide myths that were considered to be especially important. Conclusion: Information debunking suicide myths in suicide-related media reports is therefore both feasible and...
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Predicting Intentions to Read Suicide Awareness Stories. The Role of Depression and Characteristics of the Suicidal Role Model.
Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Florian Arendt, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract. Background: Research on factors that influence the intention to read suicide Awareness Material is lacking. Aims: To identify how social and state similarities between the featured protagonist of a suicide Awareness story and the audience impact on the intent to read similar stories. Method: Laboratory experiment with n = 104 students. Participants were randomly assigned to study groups. In the first group, the role model provided his personal story of crisis and was a student. In the second group, the content was identical but the model was socially dissimilar. The third group read about a topic unrelated to suicide. Depression, identification, and exposure intent were measured after the experiment. Conditional process analysis was carried out. Results: In the group featuring a once-suicidal role model with high social similarity, depression in the audience increased the intention to read similar Material in the future via identification with the role model; 82% of individuals wanted to read si...
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Effects of Suicide Awareness Material on Implicit Suicide Cognition: A Laboratory Experiment.
Health Communication, 2015Co-Authors: Florian Arendt, Benedikt Till, Thomas NiederkrotenthalerAbstract:In spite of the increasing adoption of suicide Awareness campaigns to prevent suicide, little is known about the effective construction of Awareness messages used and on their impact on suicidal cognition. We hypothesized that media reporting on an individual overcoming a suicidal crisis increases the automatic association between "life" and self. University students (N = 112) were randomly allocated to one of three groups in a laboratory experiment. Participants allocated to treatment group 1 or group 2 read Awareness Material about a person coping with suicidal ideation by getting professional help. The only difference between the two groups was the amount of social similarity (low vs. high) between the protagonist and the participants. The control group read an article unrelated to suicide. Awareness Material increased implicit cognition in terms of a strengthening of self-life associations. This effect was restricted to participants scoring low on wishful identification with the suicidal protagonist. This finding suggests that only individuals who do not wishfully identify with a protagonist going through difficult life circumstances benefit from the Awareness Material in terms of suicidal cognition. These findings provide a rich basis for further research and have potentially high relevance to the construction of suicide-Awareness messages.
Thomas Niederkrotenthaler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Effects of Awareness Material featuring individuals with experience of depression and suicidal thoughts on an audience with depressive symptoms: Randomized controlled trial
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2019Co-Authors: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract Background and objective Suicide prevention plans support individuals with personal experience of mental disorders and suicidality to provide their narratives of coping in the media. The evidence how such portrayals impact on individuals with similar symptoms is limited and there are concerns about unwanted side effects. Methods This was a double-blinded randomized controlled online trial conducted from August to November 2018. N = 158 young adults aged 18–24 with current depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts were randomized to watch a short film featuring a young individual with personal experience of depression and suicidality (n = 81), or a thematically unrelated control film (n = 77) with similar stylistic elements. Questionnaire data were collected before and immediately after exposure and analysed with ANOVA. The primary outcome was suicidal ideation; secondary outcomes were depressed mood and help-seeking intentions. We also tested the moderating effects of the degree of depressive symptoms on the effects. Results Depressed mood was significantly lower, with small-to medium effect size, in the intervention group compared to the control group (F(1,111) = 4.13, P Limitations Self-reported variables in an online setting. Conclusions Videos featuring personal experience of coping with depression appear safe for young individuals with similar or higher symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation on the short run, and might have some benefits. Trial registration German Clinical Trial Registry, DRKS00015095 (registration date: 2018-07-16).
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Effects of Awareness Material on suicide-related knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to suicidal individuals
Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 2017Co-Authors: Florian Arendt, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Sebastian Scherr, Sabrina Krallmann, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract. Background: Little is known about the impact of educative media reports on the intention to provide help to suicidal individuals and on suicide-related knowledge. Aims: To test whether Material debunking widely shared myths influences knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to others, and if such information reduces reading enjoyment. Method: A randomized controlled trial was utilized. Participants allocated to the intervention group were exposed to Awareness Material explicitly addressing suicide myths. Results: Analyses show that exposure to printed Awareness Material increased knowledge, which in turn positively influenced intentions to provide help. The inclusion of information regarding suicide myths did not reduce reading enjoyment. Limitations: The Awareness Material used in this study only addressed two suicide myths that were considered to be especially important. Conclusion: Information debunking suicide myths in suicide-related media reports is therefore both feasible and...
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Predicting Intentions to Read Suicide Awareness Stories. The Role of Depression and Characteristics of the Suicidal Role Model.
Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Florian Arendt, Benedikt TillAbstract:Abstract. Background: Research on factors that influence the intention to read suicide Awareness Material is lacking. Aims: To identify how social and state similarities between the featured protagonist of a suicide Awareness story and the audience impact on the intent to read similar stories. Method: Laboratory experiment with n = 104 students. Participants were randomly assigned to study groups. In the first group, the role model provided his personal story of crisis and was a student. In the second group, the content was identical but the model was socially dissimilar. The third group read about a topic unrelated to suicide. Depression, identification, and exposure intent were measured after the experiment. Conditional process analysis was carried out. Results: In the group featuring a once-suicidal role model with high social similarity, depression in the audience increased the intention to read similar Material in the future via identification with the role model; 82% of individuals wanted to read si...
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Effects of Suicide Awareness Material on Implicit Suicide Cognition: A Laboratory Experiment.
Health Communication, 2015Co-Authors: Florian Arendt, Benedikt Till, Thomas NiederkrotenthalerAbstract:In spite of the increasing adoption of suicide Awareness campaigns to prevent suicide, little is known about the effective construction of Awareness messages used and on their impact on suicidal cognition. We hypothesized that media reporting on an individual overcoming a suicidal crisis increases the automatic association between "life" and self. University students (N = 112) were randomly allocated to one of three groups in a laboratory experiment. Participants allocated to treatment group 1 or group 2 read Awareness Material about a person coping with suicidal ideation by getting professional help. The only difference between the two groups was the amount of social similarity (low vs. high) between the protagonist and the participants. The control group read an article unrelated to suicide. Awareness Material increased implicit cognition in terms of a strengthening of self-life associations. This effect was restricted to participants scoring low on wishful identification with the suicidal protagonist. This finding suggests that only individuals who do not wishfully identify with a protagonist going through difficult life circumstances benefit from the Awareness Material in terms of suicidal cognition. These findings provide a rich basis for further research and have potentially high relevance to the construction of suicide-Awareness messages.
Catherine Levy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mareng Language HIV/AIDS Awareness Material Production and Distribution
2008Co-Authors: Catherine LevyAbstract:This article examines the creation process and distribution impact of HIV and AIDS Awareness Material in Mareng, a language from the Western Higlands Province. VSO Tokaut AIDS, funded by the Big Lottery Fund (UK) has been carrying out an extensive HIV/AIDS Awareness program in the Lower Jimi valley since 2005. The initial baseline research had identified the need for information in the local language in order to be able to reach the part of the local population that does not speak English or Tokpisin. The article reviews the choices made in the development of the Material in local language, in order to maximize community involvement and interest. Community members selected on the basis of their HIV and AIDS background and of their position within the community gathered for a week to outline the content of the information needed and discuss the appropriate translations in Mareng. The final result was a 12-page pamphlet about basic facts about HIV and AIDS and persons living with HIV and 5 posters featuring photos of local community members and text in Mareng also. The group then discussed the physical distribution of the Material in the 28 Mareng-speaking villages. Finally they were able to report on the reactions among the community to the posters and the pamphlets.
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mareng language hiv aids Awareness Material production and distribution
Contemporary PNG Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Catherine LevyAbstract:This article examines the creation process and distribution impact of HIV and AIDS Awareness Material in Mareng, a language from the Western Higlands Province. VSO Tokaut AIDS, funded by the Big Lottery Fund (UK) has been carrying out an extensive HIV/AIDS Awareness program in the Lower Jimi valley since 2005. The initial baseline research had identified the need for information in the local language in order to be able to reach the part of the local population that does not speak English or Tokpisin. The article reviews the choices made in the development of the Material in local language, in order to maximize community involvement and interest. Community members selected on the basis of their HIV and AIDS background and of their position within the community gathered for a week to outline the content of the information needed and discuss the appropriate translations in Mareng. The final result was a 12-page pamphlet about basic facts about HIV and AIDS and persons living with HIV and 5 posters featuring photos of local community members and text in Mareng also. The group then discussed the physical distribution of the Material in the 28 Mareng-speaking villages. Finally they were able to report on the reactions among the community to the posters and the pamphlets.
Sulafa Ali - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A multi-sectoral, non-governmental program for control of rheumatic heart disease: SUR I CAAN: A model for developing countries.
International Journal of Cardiology, 2020Co-Authors: Sulafa Ali, Saad SubahiAbstract:Abstract Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality in developing countries. Control of RHD requires addressing the disease at its different stages through health system variables that are complex and intersecting. To achieve that, a multi-sectoral program is needed that is best implemented through ministries of health. In this report we present the SUR I CAAN program (Surveillance, Integration, Communication, Awareness, Advocacy and Training) that is implemented in Sudan utilizing nongovernmental resources and nonconventional funding. The program objectives are: 1. To improve primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of RHD, 2. To improve public Awareness, 3. To implement strategic research projects, and 4. To improve advocacy through collaboration with regional and international organizations dealing with RHD. We established a hospital-based register and managed to identify high burden areas where sentinel sites for RHD control were established. A package of training and Awareness Material was utilized to conduct training workshops in these areas. Handheld echocardiography was utilized for studying the prevalence as well as for early detection and treatment of RHD. Although we did not conduct a structured evaluation for this program, we believe that its structure can serve as a model for other resource-limited countries.
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Rheumatic heart disease in North Darfur: an alarmingly high burden and control initiative.
Sudanese journal of paediatrics, 2018Co-Authors: Nagwa Salih, Ishaag Eisa, Daresalam Ishag, Intisar Ibrahim, Sulafa AliAbstract:Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most common cause of cardiac morbidity in Sudanese young people and it is particularly prevalent in Darfur area. A retrospective review of clinical and echocardiography (echo) data for children with RHD seen in Al Fashir Hospital from 2010 to 2016 was conducted. Data from the hospital statistics, outpatient and echo clinic records were collected and analysed. A control program was started based on training modules and public Awareness Material. In the study period, 324 patients were admitted and 3,777 patients with RHD were seen in outpatient clinics. Complications occurred in 33% of inpatients with a case fatality of 12%. Echo revealed that 83% of patients have severe disease and 50% have a combination of more than two valves affected. Training of 50 medical assistants, 30 physicians and 10 health promoters was achieved. Public Awareness programs were conducted. We found a significant burden of RHD in Al Fashir Hospital. A control program was initiated that needs substantial support from governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
