Mental Health Discourses on Twitter during Mental Health Awareness Week.

Mental Health Discourses on Twitter during Mental Health Awareness Week.
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2020 Sep 14;:1-14
Authors: Makita M, Mas-Bleda A, Morris S, Thelwall M
Abstract
Promoting health-related campaigns on Twitter has increasingly become a world-wide choice to raise awareness and disseminate health information. Data retrieved from Twitter are now being used to explore how users express their views, attitudes and personal experiences of health-related issues. We focused on Twitter discourse reproduced during Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 by examining 1,200 tweets containing the keywords 'mental health', 'mental illness', 'mental disorders' and '#MHAW'. The analysis revealed 'awareness and advocacy', 'stigmatization', and 'personal experience of mental health/illness' as the central discourses within the sample. The article concludes with some recommendations for future research on digitally-mediated health communication.
PMID: 32926796 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Issues in Mental Health Nursing - September 16, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Issues Ment Health Nurs Source Type: research