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Abstract
Background:
Mass media plays a fundamental role in how communities understand mental health and its treatment. However, the effect of major events such as economic crises on the depiction of mental health is still unclear.
Aims:
This study aimed at analyzing representations of mental health and its treatment and the impact of the 2008 economic crisis.
Methods:
In total, 1,000 articles were randomly selected from two newspapers from a period before and after the economic crisis. These articles were analyzed with a closed coding system that classified the news as good or bad news according to the presence of themes associated with positive or stigmatizing representations.
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