Table 4.
Articles featuring specified diagnosis and primary story theme groups with Mantel-Haenszel chi-squared test for trend.a, b
| Year | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 (n = 321) | 2000 (n = 433) | 2008 (n = 607) | Trend | |||||
| % | n | % | n | % | n | χ2 (d.f. = 1) | P | |
| No diagnosis specified | 39 | 124 | 24 | 102 | 31 | 189 | ||
| Bad news | 76 | 94 | 73 | 74 | 48 | 91 | 26.653 | < 0.001 |
| Understanding mental illness | 6 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 24 | 45 | 17.096 | < 0.001 |
| Services and advocacy | 18 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 53 | 5.692 | 0.017 |
| Depression | 28 | 91 | 34 | 149 | 37 | 226 | ||
| Bad news | 38 | 35 | 32 | 47 | 28 | 63 | 3.287 | 0.070 |
| Understanding mental illness | 46 | 42 | 59 | 88 | 63 | 142 | 6.643 | 0.010 |
| Services and advocacy | 15 | 14 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 21 | 1.976 | 0.160 |
| Eating disorders | 14 | 45 | 13 | 58 | 14 | 82 | ||
| Bad news | 58 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 14 | 20.297 | < 0.001 |
| Understanding mental illness | 42 | 19 | 78 | 45 | 78 | 64 | 14.682 | < 0.001 |
| Services and advocacy | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | - | - |
| Anxiety disorders | 10 | 32 | 14 | 62 | 11 | 67 | ||
| Bad news | 19 | 6 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 0.38 | 0.845 |
| Understanding mental illness | 63 | 20 | 69 | 43 | 72 | 48 | 0.760 | 0.383 |
| Services and advocacy | 19 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 7 | - | - |
| Schizophrenia | 12 | 38 | 14 | 59 | 9 | 57 | ||
| Bad news | 58 | 22 | 49 | 29 | 68 | 39 | 1.535 | 0.215 |
| Understanding mental illness | 16 | 6 | 27 | 16 | 25 | 14 | 0.758 | 0.384 |
| Services and advocacy | 26 | 10 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 6.443 | 0.011 |
| Bipolar disorder | 4 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 19 | ||
| Bad news | 50 | 6 | 64 | 7 | 21 | 4 | - | - |
| Understanding mental illness | 33 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 53 | 10 | - | - |
| Services and advocacy | 17 | 2 | 27 | 3 | 26 | 5 | - | - |
| Personality disorders | 2 | 7 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Bad news | 86 | 6 | 85 | 22 | 56 | 5 | - | - |
| Understanding mental illness | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 33 | 3 | - | - |
| Services and advocacy | 14 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 1 | - | - |
| ADHD | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 24 | ||
| Bad news | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| Understanding mental illness | 0 | 0 | 72 | 13 | 88 | 21 | - | - |
| Services and advocacy | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| Other disorders | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | ||
| Bad news | 50 | 1 | 40 | 2 | 14 | 1 | - | - |
| Understanding mental illness | 0 | 0 | 60 | 3 | 71 | 5 | - | - |
| Services and advocacy | 50 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | - | - |
a. Diagnoses given as % of all articles from specified year; sum of all diagnoses adds up to more than 100% as articles can feature multiple diagnoses. Primary story theme groups given as % of all articles featuring specified diagnosis from specified year.
b. Test for trend could not be performed for theme groups with expected cell values < 5.