COVID-19报告的媒体“加油困扰”

[新德里]大众媒体应该注意并注意避免在Covid-19上报告时害怕和困扰，敦促Astudyon the psychological impact of pandemic-related news.

心理弹性enables people to adapt to the challenges of life and maintain mentalhealthwhen exposed to adversities. Published this month inPersonality and Individual Differences, the study explored the effects ofCOVID-19与印度人们的情感和心理韧性有关的新闻。

According to the study, people experience fear, social isolation, uncertainty and the possibility of losing track of their normal lives, owing to COVID-19 and restrictions associated with it, such as lockdowns and social distancing.

难以获得每日必需品，害怕捕获病毒，缺乏医疗的help, and vaccine apprehension leads to high levels of anxiety and distress, the study found, with negative reports in themediaheighteningthese anxieties.

In an analysis of 141,208 headlines from global English news sources on the coverage of COVID-19, 52 per cent of news headlines were related to negative sentiments, whereas only 30 per cent of headlines were related to positive sentiments, the researchers said. The rest was considered neutral.

The study was conducted online during September 2020.

Shakshi Priya Giri, an author of the study and research scholar from theDeen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University告诉scidev.net该研究检查了参与者的积极情绪，负面情绪和心理韧性，这些新闻暴露范围是不同类型的新闻触发。

“We found that the positive emotions of the participants were significantly higher for those who were exposed to news having positive content about the COVID-19 pandemic than those who were exposed to news having negative content, and also we found that the psychological resilience was significantly higher for those who were exposed to news having positive content about the COVID-19 pandemic than those who were exposed to news having negative content,” Giri says.

According to theresearchers, while there may not be any clearly defined boundaries between what news is threatening and what is cautioning, still, mass media is expected to be sensitive to the emotions of people while reporting pandemics or any similar long-term uncertain and stressful events in the future.

“大众媒体必须使人们意识到当前的事态发展，并警告人们对他们的疏忽后果可能产生后果，但不要以私密的方式灌输悲观，恐惧或混乱的感觉。相反，他们必须进行周到，仔细的准备和新闻的介绍，因为微妙的变化会以实质性的方式影响观众的心理。”吉里说。

“Mass media must make people aware about the current developments and warn people of possible consequences for their negligence”

Shakshi Priya Giri，Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur大学

Prasun Chaudhuri, senior assistant editor atThe Telegraph,印度观察到，通过发布诸如崛起的死亡之类的坏消息，印度可能会使人们失去希望，而有关人们挺身而出的消息来帮助病人和无助的人似乎提高了公众的精神，并且通常“更加令人鼓舞”。

Vikas梅农额外的支持fessor, Department of Psychiatry,JIPMER，印度普杜切里说：“在这项研究中，作者研究了大众媒体对个人的情绪状态和韧性的影响。他们发现，负面消息对积极情绪的影响远远超过了积极新闻对负面情绪的影响。此外，他们得出结论，大众媒体可以改变对弹性的自我认知。​​”

Mass media has an important role in building resilience in the community after anydisaster或大流行，Ramdas Ransing是精神病学副教授BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College，在印度的Ratangiri。“分享积极的新闻有助于在社区中安装希望，创造一种连贯性和安全感，建立信任和协作解决问题的工作。”

这件作品由Scidev.net的亚太桌子制作。