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. 2016 Oct 25;62(4):278–285. doi: 10.1177/0706743716675856

Table 1.

Basic Description of Newspaper Measurements (2005 to 2015; N = 24,570).

Year Total (N) Form of Newspaper Front Page (%) Positive Tone (%) Recovery as a Theme (%) Stigmatising in Content (%) Danger Linked Negatively to Mental Illness (%) Shortage of Resource as a Theme (%) Expert Quoted (%) PWMI Quoted (%) Intervention Discussed (%)
Tabloid (%) Broadsheet (%) Online (%)
2005 1405 27.4 69.6 3.0 0.7 18.9 11.2 32.7 42.3 12.0 27.7 22.4 21.2
2006 1558 19.6 73.7 6.7 0.3 14.8 15.2 35.8 31.3 16.2 20.8 13.2 13.7
2007 1910 13.4 74.5 12.2 5.7 12.7 10.8 27.4 25.1 21.9 17.3 12.6 14.8
2008 2237 12.4 67.5 20.1 0.1 9.7 27.8 15.0 50.4 55.6 32.2 17.7 23.1
2009 1947 10.4 65.8 23.8 0.2 8.2 16.4 35.7 38.3 23.0 23.0 15.2 18.6
2010 2208 13.0 57.5 29.6 3.0 14.4 23.6 39.7 49.2 30.9 27.1 20.9 20.3
2011 2018 10.2 55.9 33.8 4.4 19.5 17.6 26.6 44.4 31.9 31.4 24.4 21.2
2012 2205 7.7 55.3 37.1 1.5 32.2 15.6 24.4 52.8 31.3 22.8 20.0 20.0
2013 2812 7.2 44.2 48.5 3.0 25.8 10.5 19.7 57.9 26.9 27.5 20.8 18.8
2014 3346 6.7 39.6 53.7 3.2 25.4 10.5 34.2 55.1 32.1 29.6 21.0 23.1
2015 2924 7.9 36.9 55.2 3.2 34.8 9.8 22.3 50.9 32.1 26.4 23.7 25.8
Average 2234 11.2 55.4 33.5 2.4 20.9 15.0 28.0 47.0 29.8 26.4 19.6 20.5

PWMI, people with mental illness.