Content analysis of online news media reports on fatal cases of foreign body airway obstruction in India and the United Kingdom
Description
The dataset contains results of the evaluation of news reports published in open online media sources, which described fatal cases of foreign body airway obstruction that happened in the geographic boundaries of India and the UK. In August-September 2023, Google was prompted with the query “news choking death [country name]”. For each country, the search was conducted individually for two 12-month intervals, namely 1 July 2021–30 June 2022, and 1 July 2022–30 June 2023. One hundred search results per search (200 results per country) were screened. Records of all relevant news articles in English were analysed, in particular in terms of whether an article concerned the relevance of first aid provision and the relevance of first aid training, and whether instructions on how to give first aid were included. Whenever an article contained instructions on first aid, the instructions were manually evaluated for correctness using the ERC Research NET checklist for quality appraisal of educational resources on adult Basic Life Support [Birkun et al., 2023]. Additionally, the new Bing chatbot was employed to analyse the news articles’ content. The resulting dataset contains characteristics of 47 unique news articles for India and 82 articles for the UK. Reference: Birkun AA, Gautam A, Böttiger BW; Delphi study investigators. An expert consensus-based checklist for quality appraisal of educational resources on adult Basic Life Support: a Delphi study. Clin Exp Emerg Med. 2023 Aug 25. doi: 10.15441/ceem.23.049