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Abstract
Purpose
This study tried to understand discourses of life-sustaining treatments in general daily and healthcare newspapers.
Methods
A text-network analysis was conducted using the NetMiner program. Firstly, 572 articles from 11 daily newspapers and 258 articles from 8 healthcare newspapers were collected, which were published from August 2013 to October 2016. Secondly, keywords (semantic morphemes) were extracted from the articles and rearranged by removing stop-words, refining similar words, excluding non-relevant words, and defining meaningful phrases. Finally, co-occurrence matrices of the keywords with a frequency of 30 times or higher were developed and statistical measures―indices of degree and betweenness centrality, ego-networks, and clustering―were obtained.
Results
In the general daily and healthcare newspapers, the top eight core keywords were common: “patients,” “death,” “LST (life-sustaining treatments),” “hospice palliative care,” “hospitals,” “family,” “opinion,” and “withdrawal.” There were also common subtopics shared by the general daily and healthcare newspapers: withdrawal of LST, hospice palliative care, National Bioethics Review Committee, and self-determination and proxy decision of patients and family. Additionally, the general daily newspapers included diverse social interest or events like well-dying, euthanasia, and the death of farmer Baek Nam-ki, whereas the healthcare newspapers discussed problems of the relevant laws, and insufficient infrastructure and low reimbursement for hospice-palliative care.
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Figure 2.
Sociogram of the top 50 keywords based on degree-centrality in general daily newspaper articles on life-sustaining treatments (LST).
Figure 3.
Sociogram of the top 50 keywords based on degree-centrality in healthcare newspaper articles on life-sustaining treatments (LST).
Table 1.
The Top 30 Keywords by Centrality Index in General Daily Newspaper Articles on Life-sustaining Treatments (LST)
Table 2.
The Top 30 Keywords by Centrality Index in Healthcare Newspaper Articles on Life-sustaining Treatments (LST)
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