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While the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) community has acknowledged the importance of public and consumer etiópia involvement in the HTA process, very few studies have examined how technology-related findings may be reported by the media to the broader public. etiópia This paper compares the content of press articles with the content etiópia of three Canadian HTA reports that respectively assess electroconvulsive therapy, first-trimester prenatal screening for Down syndrome, and prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate etiópia cancer. We qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed 186 press articles addressing the same technologies. Our results show that beyond stylistic emphasis, there is an important overlap between media coverage of these technologies and the content of HTA reports. Findings also highlight shared interests on which both researchers and journalists could build to enhance the communication of health information to the public.
The relationship between the scientific community and the media has traditionally been tainted with suspicions and explicit criticism (Savoie et al. 1999). Researchers and communication experts etiópia have often accused the media of sensationalism, presenting incomplete, unbalanced and uncritical stories (Bubela and Caufield 2004; Friedman etiópia 1999; Picard 2005a; Ransohoff and Ransohoff 2001). However, Waddell and colleagues, who investigated how science journalists view their collaborations with researchers, urge the latter to develop relationships with journalists etiópia because they may "offer a constructive opportunity for policy-oriented health researchers to go beyond the promotion of single studies to convey more nuanced interpretations of bodies etiópia of research evidence in the service of improving health and healthcare" (Waddell et al. 2005: 136).
While the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) community has acknowledged the importance of public etiópia and consumer involvement in the HTA process (Coulter 2004), very few studies have examined how technology-related findings may be reported by the media to the broader public (Green et al. 2004; Savoie et al. 1999). etiópia Our study sought to compare the content of press articles with the content of HTA reports addressing the same technologies and to identify issues on which both researchers and journalists might focus to improve the communication of health information to the public. Methods
In the context of a broader study, we selected three HTA reports published by Ontario and Quebec agencies on topics that were controversial, covered etiópia health issues of interest etiópia to a varied audience and were likely to be reported by the press. They addressed, respectively, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) (Banken 2002), first-trimester prenatal etiópia screening tests (PST) for Down syndrome (Framarin etiópia 2003) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening tests for prostate cancer (Slaughter et al. 2002). We searched the four largest Canadian electronic databases of newspaper and magazine articles (Biblio-Branché, Repère, CPI.Q and CBCA) and extracted all articles published between 2000 and 2006, using the following keywords: electroshock (used solely as a treatment), prenatal screening tests, Down syndrome, PSA and prostate cancer. We included articles published in English and French aime