{"id":12597,"date":"2017-04-25T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2017-04-25T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:05:13","slug":"a-content-analysis-of-cfs-me-in-the-us-news-from-1987-to-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/a-content-analysis-of-cfs-me-in-the-us-news-from-1987-to-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"A content analysis of CFS & ME in the US news from 1987 to 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A content analysis of chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic\u00a0encephalomyelitis in the news from 1987 to 2013<\/a>, by\u00a0Zachary A Siegel, Abigail Brown, Andrew Devendorf,\u00a0 Johanna Collier, Leonard Jason in<\/span> Chronic Illness <\/em>[Preprint April 2017]<\/p>\n

Objectives:
\nThe aim of this study was to analyze the content of American newspaper\u00a0articles (n=214) from 1987 to 2013, in order to understand how the\u00a0public digests information related to Chronic Fatigue syndrome, a\u00a0controversial and misunderstood illness.<\/p>\n

Methods:
\nA novel codebook derived from the scientific literature was applied to\u00a0214 newspaper articles collected from Lexis Nexis Academic(r). These\u00a0articles were coded quantitatively and frequency tables were created to\u00a0delineate the variables as they appeared in the articles.<\/p>\n

Results:
\nThe etiology was portrayed as organic in 64.5% (n=138) of the articles,\u00a0and there was no mention of case definitions or diagnostic criteria in\u00a056.1% (n=120) of the articles. The most common comorbidity was\u00a0depression, appearing in 22.9% (n=49) of the articles. In 55.6% (n=119)\u00a0of the articles, there was no mention of prevalence rates. In 50.9%\u00a0(n=109) of the articles, there was no mention of any form of treatment\u00a0for the illness. A total of 19.4% (n=42) of the headlines mislabeled the\u00a0name of the illness.<\/p>\n

Discussion:
\nBased on descriptive statistics of all 214 coded articles, media\u00a0communicated mixed messages for salient variables such as the name of\u00a0the illness, its etiology and treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research abstract: A content analysis of chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic\u00a0encephalomyelitis in the news from 1987 to 2013, by\u00a0Zachary A Siegel, Abigail Brown, Andrew Devendorf,\u00a0 Johanna Collier, Leonard Jason in Chronic Illness [Preprint April 2017] Objectives: The aim of this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1056,2931,3702,2589,2241,3168,3703],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-abigail-a-brown","tag-andrew-r-devendorf","tag-johanna-collier","tag-media-coverage","tag-prof-leonard-jason","tag-usa","tag-zachary-a-siegel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-3hb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12667,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/12667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}