The Tool for Evaluating Media Portrayals of Suicide (TEMPOS): Development and Application of a Novel Rating Scale to Reduce Suicide Contagion
, Mego Lien 2, Vicki Harrison 3,*, John J. Donoghue 2, Jeevanjot Singh Kapur 3, Song Hi Kim 3, Nhi Thi Tran 4, Shashank V. Joshi 3 and Sita G. Patel 5Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors. It was a pleasure to review your manuscript. I found your work on developing the scale very relevant and well structured. And I am sure TEMPOS will have a bright future.
But I felt confused by some mismatch between the title of the manuscript and results provided in it. In my understanding the article in it's current form provides little information about the evaluation of such features of the scale as validity and reliability - just data on inter-rater reliability in the table 3. It focuses on (or advertizes) and illustrates possible application of the scale in different settings and for different purposes. So I would suggest either to modify the title to describe the current content, or to modify the analysis and presentation of your interesting results, to illustrate the title.
Respectfully,
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
We very much appreciate your thoughtful review of our manuscript. Thank you for your encouraging words about the importance of this study, and for welcoming a revised submission.
We are in full agreement with your comment regarding the mismatch between the title and the article content, and have revised the title to more accurately reflect the analyses and results included in the manuscript. Thank you again for your feedback.
Sincerely,
Chloe Sorensen
Reviewer 2 Report
See please the attached file.
Thank you and best regards.
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Author Response
Dear reviewer,
We very much appreciate your thoughtful review of our manuscript. Thank you for your kind words about the strengths of our study, and for your suggestions on how to strengthen it further.
We are in agreement that it is important to address the media’s impact on self-harm and suicide attempts in addition to completed suicide, and we appreciate the reference you provided. We have added content to the introduction to highlight the heightened risk of self harm and suicide attempts at lines 38-40.
In response to your suggestion that we highlight the strengths of our work more, we have added two sentences to the conclusion at lines 351-357. Thank you again for your encouraging words, and for welcoming a revised submission.
Sincerely,
Chloe Sorensen
