National Media Monitoring Agency for reporting of suicide: An idea whose time has come?

Asian J Psychiatr. 2021 Jan:55:102516. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102516. Epub 2020 Dec 11.

¹ Dept of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 605006, India. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226003, India.
³ Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walalwalkar Rural Medical College, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, 415606, India.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, 1340, Bangladesh.
⁵ Dept of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751019, India.

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Keywords: Werther effect; copycat; media; suicide; suicide prevention.

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