Content analysis of online news media reports on fatal cases of foreign body airway obstruction in India and the United Kingdom

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

本数据集收录了针对公开在线媒体发布的新闻报道的评估结果，这些报道描述了发生在印度与英国境内的气道异物梗阻（foreign body airway obstruction）致死案例。2023年8月至9月期间，研究人员以检索词"news choking death [国家名称]"对谷歌（Google）发起检索。针对每个国家，研究分别在两个12个月周期内独立开展：2021年7月1日至2022年6月30日，以及2022年7月1日至2023年6月30日。每次检索筛选100条搜索结果，即每个国家总计获取200条结果。研究人员对所有符合要求的英文新闻报道进行分析，重点考察以下维度：报道是否涉及急救实施的相关性、急救培训的相关性，以及是否包含急救操作指导内容。若报道中包含急救操作指导，则依据ERC Research NET成人基础生命支持（Basic Life Support, BLS）教育资源质量评价清单（Birkun等，2023），对指导内容的正确性开展人工评估。此外，本研究还借助新版必应（Bing）聊天机器人对新闻报道的内容进行分析。最终构建的数据集包含印度的47篇独特新闻报道，以及英国的82篇独特新闻报道的相关特征。参考文献：Birkun AA, Gautam A, Böttiger BW; 德尔菲研究（Delphi study）调查组. 基于专家共识的成人基础生命支持教育资源质量评价清单：一项德尔菲研究. 《临床与急诊医学（Clin Exp Emerg Med）》, 2023年8月25日. doi: 10.15441/ceem.23.049