Table 4 Frequency of content codes across media language based on the analysis of the 788 news articles selected using constructed-week sampling
English news (N = 527) (%) | Chinese news (N = 261) (%) | Total (N = 788) (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Headline framing on AMR | 84.2 | 78.9 | 82.5 |
Medical terms | 44.2** | 34.5 | 41.0 |
Superbug | 38.3 | 43.3 | 40.0 |
Doomsday (e.g., antibiotic apocalypse, post-antibiotic era) | 4.7 | 6.5 | 5.3 |
Military term (e.g., battle, war) | 6.3* | 2.3 | 4.9 |
Catastrophic (e.g., crisis, disaster) | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
Cause | 49.5*** | 63.2 | 54.1 |
Inappropriate AMU | 33.8* | 42.5 | 36.7 |
AMU in animals | 11.9 | 15.3 | 13.1 |
AMU in the health sector | 12.9 | 10.0 | 11.9 |
AMU in the general consumers | 5.9*** | 14.2 | 8.6 |
Microbial evolution | 19.9** | 30.6 | 23.5 |
Consequence | 58.6* | 67.0 | 61.4 |
Health consequences | 57.1** | 67.0 | 60.4 |
Economic consequences | 7.6 | 6.9 | 7.4 |
Victim | 35.1*** | 52.1 | 40.7 |
Vulnerable individuals | 26.6* | 34.5 | 29.2 |
General public | 9.5*** | 21.8 | 13.4 |
Controllability | 21.2*** | 39.5 | 27.3 |
Positive | 11.4*** | 26.4 | 16.4 |
Negative | 9.8 | 13.0 | 10.9 |
Solution | 78.9 | 81.2 | 79.7 |
Technoscientific solutions | 40.4 | 34.1 | 38.3 |
Appropriate antimicrobial use (AMU) | 26.0 | 29.1 | 27.0 |
Political/organizational solutions | 23.5 | 28.7 | 25.2 |
Personal hygiene | 21.1 | 26.8 | 23.0 |
Others (e.g. vaccination, breastfeeding) | 4.5 | 2.7 | 3.9 |