![]() The funders had norole in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, orpreparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. įunding: Funding: This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research under grant CIHR MOP137073 ) toTCW and EH an infrastructure grant from CIHR to the Canadian ResearchInitiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM), Prairie Node under grant # CRISMN139151( ) toTCW and EH Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) DoctoralAward under grant # 752-2019-2510 to HM( ) Izaak Walton KillamMemorial Scholarship to HM ( ) the Stoller圜hildren’s Hospital Foundation and the Alberta Women’s Health Foundation undergrant #2221 to HM ( ) the Canada Research Chairsprogram through a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Health Systems Innovationunder grant # CRC TIER2 233345 which supports EH ( ). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: Please note that we have now uploaded the data set used for this study within the following data repository. Received: ApAccepted: NovemPublished: November 27, 2023Ĭopyright: © 2023 Morris R. López-Rodríguez, Rey Juan Carlos University: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, SPAIN (2023) Canadian newspaper coverage on harm reduction featuring bereaved mothers: A mixed methods analysis. H, Wild TC, Giovannoni M, Haines-Saah R, Koziel J, Schulz P, et al. Finding ways to report bereaved mothers’ stories in ways that are inclusive of all PWUD while highlighting the role of broad, structural determinants of substance use has the potential to shift public opinion and government support in favour of these life-saving services.Ĭitation: Morris R. Bereaved mothers’ advocacy in support of harm reduction programs and services may be minimized in the process of reporting their stories for newspaper readers. Although harm reduction (services or policies) were advocated by the mother in most (77.8%) of these 63 texts, inductive thematic analysis of a subset ( n = 52) of those articles revealed that mothers’ advocacy was diminished by newspaper reporting that emphasized their experiences of grief, prioritized individual biographies over structural factors contributing to substance use harms, and created rhetorical divisions between different groups of people who use drugs (PWUD). Deductive content analysis of these 63 texts revealed that coverage of naloxone distribution (42.9%) and supervised drug consumption services (28.6%) were prioritized over other harm reduction services. Newspaper articles featuring a mother whose child’s death was related to substance use were rarely published ( n = 63 1.1% of total harm reduction media coverage during the study period). Quantitative analyses described the volume and content of harm reduction reporting featuring a mother whose child’s death was related to substance use while qualitative thematic analysis provided in-depth descriptions of the discourses underlying such news reporting. We undertook a mixed-method secondary analyses of 5681 Canadian newspaper articles on harm reduction (2000–2016). ![]() ![]() However, the extent to which such news media coverage occurs in Canada is unknown, and research has not documented how the news media in Canada covers such stories. A growing body of evidence suggests that news media which includes a sympathetic portrayal of a mother bereaved by substance use can increase public support for harm reduction initiatives.
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