Mental health and media links based on five essential elements to promote psychosocial support for victims: the case of the earthquake in Chile in 2010

Soledad Puente, Humberto Marín, Pamela P. Álvarez, Pablo M. Flores, Daniela Grassau

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This paper reviews the role of news with respect to the mental health of a population exposed to a disaster. It is based on the five essential elements of psychosocial care presented by Stevan E. Hobfoll et al. (2007) that can be introduced after a potentially traumatic event: promoting a sense of safety, calming, self and collective efficacy, connectedness, and hope. This study developed a method to relate these elements to television coverage and applied it to the stories (n=1,169) aired by the main networks in Chile in the 72 hours after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck on 27 February 2010. Of the five elements, promoting a sense of safety occurred most often (82.72 per cent), whereas the others were barely present (less than 10 per cent). The study argues that these elements can increase the possibility of framing the news, given that the audience watching can also be affected by a disaster.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)555-574
Número de páginas20
PublicaciónDisasters
Volumen43
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 jul. 2019

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Ciencias Sociales General
  • Ciencias de la Tierra y Planetarias General

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