title: Newspaper reporting on child raising in Japan.
abstract: Study of child-raising issues published in newspapers is lacking. The purpose of this article is to determine the spectrum of issues associated with child raising based on a newspaper. We conducted a cross-sectional study of items related to children (aged <19 years) reported in a Japanese newspaper from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2002. A total of 1287 child-related items were published. The percentages of reports regarding individual health, health-related issues, topics on two or more issues, and global child issues were 5.9%, 28.8%, 62.9%, and 2.4%, respectively. The most common singly reported issues from 446 items were on child play and recreation, welfare activities, security, child abuse, child death, sports, and parenting. These reports assist parents, families, nurses, pediatricians, and child care workers in providing information on healthy child raising.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. nbbasnet777@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Narayan Bahadur
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Basnet
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Igarashi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007564:Japan; D020452:Journalism / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D009524:Newspapers as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016487:Parenting; D017678:Sex Distribution