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Table 3 Articles by newspaper and proportion of which were bad news with Mantel-Haenszel chi-squared test for trend

From: Newspaper coverage of mental illness in the UK, 1992-2008

 

Year

  
 

1992 (n =321)

2000 (n =433)

2008 (n =607)

Trend

 

%

n

%

n

%

n

χ2 (d.f. = 1)

P

Guardian

37

118

29

125

29

175

  

   Bad news

59

70

40

50

25

43

35.629

< 0.001

Times

27

87

33

143

32

192

  

   Bad news

51

44

40

57

36

69

4.908

0.027

Daily Mail

22

72

25

108

25

153

  

   Bad news

65

47

47

51

45

69

6.736

0.009

Evening Standard

14

44

13

57

13

87

  

   Bad news

61

27

56

32

47

41

2.595

0.107

  1. a. Newspapers given as % of all articles from specified year. Bad news given as % of all articles in specified newspaper in specified year.