UK News Media Coverage of Diabetes Types from 2020 to 2024

A corpus of UK mainstream news media articles covering Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes from 2020 to 2024. The dataset was created by Sara Vilar-Lluch for a discourse analysis study examining linguistic representation, stigma, and adherence to communication guidelines. The dataset is 5.5 KB in size and was last updated on April 30, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in medical versus free-will discourse around diabetes based on the linguistic representation described.
• Measure adoption of recommended versus dispreferred language in health reporting based on the study's focus on communication guidelines.
• Identify potential sources of misunderstanding by examining references to diabetes 'in general' or in context with unrelated conditions as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Dataset has a clear temporal coverage from 2020 to 2024.
• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
• Focus is on a specific geographic context: UK mainstream news media.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Corpus-based discourse analysis of mainstream UK news media.

Time Range

2020-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 17:26:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom