OTOtherWork (Reading, Mass.)2026

Analyzing sentiment shifts in news coverage of occupational accidents: A case study of the Amasra mining disaster in Türkiye.

Derya Dikbıyık, Selçuk Alp

PMID 40686430

WHAT IT FOUND

No clinical finding.

This analyses how the emotional tone of news coverage of a coal mine disaster changed over time. No patients, no treatment and no health outcome were studied.

What this paper is

This is a text-analysis study of news coverage, not a study of patients. The authors collected news articles about the 2022 Amasra coal mine disaster in Türkiye, had five experts label the most frequent words with emotions, and then compared how the emotional tone of that coverage changed across three periods: the days of the accident, the period afterwards, and the trial. The findings are about journalism and public sentiment, not about people receiving care. No patients were treated, no intervention was tested and no health outcome was measured, so there is nothing here to change what you do with a patient.

Declared interests

The authors stated they received no funding for the research, authorship or publication of the article, and declared no potential conflicts of interest.

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