Exhibit 3.

Content and type of news stories about mental illness and interpersonal violence, 1995–2014

	1995–2014 (N = 152)		1995–2004 (n = 92)		2005–14 (n = 60)
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
NEWS STORY MENTIONED:
Depiction of specific violent event committed by a person with mental illness	113	74	68	74	45	75
Gun violence event	41	27	22	24	19	32
Mass shooting event	21	14	8	9	13	22**
School shooting event	13	9	6	7	7	12
Family violence event	22	14	12	13	10	17
STATEMENTS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESSES AND INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
Mental illness increases the risk of interpersonal violence	57	38	34	37	23	38
Most people with mental illnesses are not violent toward others	12	8	9	10	3	5
It is difficult to predict interpersonal violence in people with mental illnesses	2	1	1	1	1	2
SPECIFIC DIAGNOSES MENTIONED IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
Schizophrenia	26	17	14	15	12	20
Depression	16	11	12	13	4	7
Bipolar disorder	4	3	2	2	2	3
Post-traumatic stress disorder	2	1	0	0	2	3
Psychotic symptoms mentioned in the context of interpersonal violence	25	17	17	18	8	13
RISK FACTORS FOR VIOLENCE
Drug use	8	5	6	7	2	3
Stressful life event precipitating violence	8	5	5	5	3	5
Alcohol use	5	3	4	4	1	2
Abuse or trauma	1	1	1	1	0	0
TYPE OF NEWS STORY
Print news	129	85	77	84	52	87
Front page	12	8	1	1	11	18****
Print opinion	8	5	5	5	3	5
Television news	18	12	13	14	5	8

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of news media data, 1995–2014. NOTE Significance was determined by the use of chi-square tests to compare the proportion of news stories mentioning a given measure in the first decade of the study period (1995–2004) versus the second decade (2005–14).

^**p < 0.05

^****p < 0.001