scholarly journals Representation of #CAMHS on social media platform TikTok

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S241-S242
Author(s):  
Preetisha Chadee ◽  
Sacha Evans
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Negative Perception ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Insight Into

AimsThe video-based free social media app, TikTok, has grown in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, with half of British children using Tik Tok regularly. With more than 2 billion downloads, it was the most downloaded app of 2020. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is currently found on TikTok via the hashtag #CAMHS. The aim of this study was to explore how CAMHS is represented on TikTok through reviewing the hashtags associated with CAMHS and exploring the themes of videos with the #CAMHS hashtag.MethodThe Tik Tok app was downloaded and a search for the hashtags which featured the word #CAMHS was undertaken. A thematic analysis of the top 100 most popular uploaded videos featuring the #CAMHS was conducted. The number of likes, views and shares of the videos featuring each theme was recorded.ResultVideos with the hashtag #CAMHS had 203.9 million views, followed by: #camhsmeme(s) totalling 43.1 million views, #camhsjokes with 21.4 million views and #camhskids, 12.5 million views. The top 100 most popular videos represented 24% of total viewed videos with the hashtag #CAMHS.The most popular recurrent themes associated with the hashtag #CAMHS in our sample were: raising awareness of mental health symptoms and management (40% of videos), reference to self-harm (27% of videos) and negative perception of CAMHS (27% of videos).Raising awareness of mental health symptoms and management had the most likes (3,694,700) and views (17,435,900). This was followed by videos with themes of reference to self-harm (3,006,300 likes and 14,382,700 views). The most shared themes were: reference to suicide (shared 56,763 times) and videos which portrayed a theme of negative perception of CAMHS (40,628 shares). Videos with themes of a negative perception of CAMHS also garnered 1,762,500 likes and 8,666,900 views.ConclusionCAMHS is actively represented on TikTok through freely accessible unregulated videos. Videos with themes of raising awareness of mental health symptoms and management can potentially allow young people to share their experiences. Nonetheless, popular hashtags such as #CAMHSmemes and #CAMHSjokes, as well as videos featuring themes of negative perception of CAMHS, could potentially undermine the reputation of CAMHS to existing and future service users. The content of these videos should be taken seriously by CAMHS clinicians as it can potentially provide an insight into service users’ experiences of CAMHS on a scale that has not been observed before. Presently these videos are not screened or modulated by the NHS CAMHS service.

scholarly journals Affiliative and prosocial motives and emotions in mental health

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Threat Processing ◽  
Prosocial Motives ◽  
Mental Health Difficulties ◽  
Insight Into

This paper argues that studies of mental health and wellbeing can be contextualized within an evolutionary approach that highlights the coregulating processes of emotions and motives. In particular, it suggests that, although many mental health symptoms are commonly linked to threat processing, attention also needs to be directed to the major regulators of threat processing, ie, prosocial and affiliative interactions with self and others. Given that human sociality has been a central driver for a whole range of human adaptations, a better understanding of the effects of prosocial interactions on health is required, and should be integrated into psychiatric formulations and interventions. Insight into the coregulating processes of motives and emotions, especially prosocial ones, offers improved ways of understanding mental health difficulties and their prevention and relief.

scholarly journals Monitoring Online Discussions About Suicide Among Twitter Users With Schizophrenia: Exploratory Study (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulin Hswen ◽  
John A Naslund ◽  
John S Brownstein ◽  
Jared B Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Twitter Users

BACKGROUND People with schizophrenia experience elevated risk of suicide. Mental health symptoms, including depression and anxiety, contribute to increased risk of suicide. Digital technology could support efforts to detect suicide risk and inform suicide prevention efforts. OBJECTIVE This exploratory study examined the feasibility of monitoring online discussions about suicide among Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia. METHODS Posts containing the terms suicide or suicidal were collected from a sample of Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia (N=203) and a random sample of control users (N=173) over a 200-day period. Frequency and timing of posts about suicide were compared between groups. The associations between posting about suicide and common mental health symptoms were examined. RESULTS Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia posted more tweets about suicide (mean 7.10, SD 15.98) compared to control users (mean 1.89, SD 4.79; t374=-4.13, P<.001). Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia showed greater odds of tweeting about suicide compared to control users (odds ratio 2.15, 95% CI 1.42-3.28). Among all users, tweets about suicide were associated with tweets about depression (r=0.62, P<.001) and anxiety (r=0.45, P<.001). CONCLUSIONS Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia appear to commonly discuss suicide on social media, which is associated with greater discussion about other mental health symptoms. These findings should be interpreted cautiously, as it is not possible to determine whether online discussions about suicide correlate with suicide risk. However, these patterns of online discussion may be indicative of elevated risk of suicide observed in this patient group. There may be opportunities to leverage social media for supporting suicide prevention among individuals with schizophrenia.

A national survey of self-reported mental health of Veterans pursuing post-secondary education in Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. e20200047
Author(s):  
John S. Ogrodniczuka ◽  
Tim Laidler ◽  
John L. Oliffecc
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Self Harm

Lay Summary This article details self-reported mental health symptoms among Canadian Veterans pursing post-secondary education in Canada. Participants reported high prevalence of psychological symptoms, most notably feeling exhausted (80.5%) and overwhelmed (78.9%). More than 1 in 10 respondents reported seriously considering suicide (13.4%), and 5.9% had attempted suicide in the past 12 months. Furthermore, 8.7% of respondents had indicated intentional self-harm (cut, burned, bruised, or otherwise injured themselves) within the past 12 months. The findings reflect significant mental health symptoms for Veterans attending Canadian colleges and universities, underscoring the need to provide tailored services to safely integrate Veterans to campus life.

scholarly journals Social Media and Mental Health in Youth During COVID-19: A Narrative Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Health Symptoms

Social media effects on youth during COVID-19 have been studied in the context of excessive use and mental health. Although some positive effects have been reported including connecting and social support, the COVID-19 research has typically noted negative effects including sedentary behavior, limited social interaction, depression and anxiety. This narrative review of eighteen COVID-19 publications on social media effects on youth includes sections on prevalence, on effects and on mediators/moderators of those effects. The prevalence of social media use by youth during COVID-19 has varied between 5% and 97% across 22 countries as a function of location, quarantine/lockdown, and type of social media, although the overall prevalence has significantly increased by 27% during the pandemic and has averaged 38% across studies. The most popular social media have been Facebook, What’s App, Instagram and Twitter. The prevalence of mental health symptoms has also varied across countries but has averaged 27% for anxiety, 34% for depression and 35% for stress. Mediators for the relationships between excessive social media and mental health symptoms have included rumination, psychological capital, sense of control and active use and moderators have included mindfulness, academic burnout and “flow”. Limitations of this literature are its sampling of self-reports from university students via cross-sectional surveys and confounding variables including pre-existing psychopathology, lockdown conditions, and sedentary behavior. Research is needed on the specific reasons for excessive social media use (e. g. information seeking, social interaction and escape from negative feelings including loneliness and touch deprivation) to inform intervention protocols for reducing this addictive behavior and its negative consequences on mental health symptoms in youth.

scholarly journals Radically open dialectical behaviour therapy adapted for adolescents: a case series

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Baudinet ◽  
Catherine Stewart ◽  
Eleanor Bennett ◽  
Anna Konstantellou ◽  
Rhian Parham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Self Harm

Abstract Background Overcontrol is a transdiagnostic cluster of traits associated with excessive psychological, behavioural and social inhibitory control. It is associated with psychiatric diagnoses of depression, restrictive eating disorders and/or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is a transdiagnostic treatment for maladaptive overcontrol. This case series evaluates an adolescent adaption (RO-A) for a transdiagnostic group of adolescents identified as overcontrolled. Methods Twenty-eight adolescents were consecutively referred for RO-A from two different National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services between June 2017 and February 2020. Baseline self-report measures assessed overcontrol characteristics, relationship and attachment quality and mental health symptoms of depression and eating disorders, which were repeated at discharge. Results Adolescents in this case series reported high rates of depression (78.6%), self-harm (64.3%) and eating disorders (78.6%). Most (85.7%) had two or more mental health diagnoses and all had previous mental health treatments before starting RO-A. The mean number of RO-A sessions attended was 18 group-based skills classes and 21 individual sessions over a mean period of 34 weeks. Significant improvements with medium and large effect sizes were reported in cognitive flexibility (d = 1.63), risk aversion (d = 1.17), increased reward processing (d = .79) and reduced suppression of emotional expression (d = .72). Adolescents also reported feeling less socially withdrawn (d = .97), more connected to others (d = 1.03), as well as more confident (d = 1.10) and comfortable (d = .85) in attachment relationships. Symptoms of depression (d = .71), eating disorders (d = 1.06) and rates of self-harm (V = .39) also significantly improved. Exploratory correlation analyses suggest improvements in overcontrol are moderately to strongly correlated with improvements in symptoms of depression and eating disorders. Conclusions This case series provides preliminary data that RO-A may be an effective new treatment for adolescents with overcontrol and moderate to severe mental health disorders like depression and eating disorders. RO-A led to improved management of overcontrol, improved relationship quality and reduced mental health symptoms. Further evaluation is indicated by this case series, particularly for underweight young people with eating disorders. More rigorous testing of the model is required as conclusions are only tentative due to the small sample size and methodological limitations.

scholarly journals Monitoring Online Discussions About Suicide Among Twitter Users With Schizophrenia: Exploratory Study

10.2196/11483 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. e11483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulin Hswen ◽  
John A Naslund ◽  
John S Brownstein ◽  
Jared B Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Twitter Users

Background People with schizophrenia experience elevated risk of suicide. Mental health symptoms, including depression and anxiety, contribute to increased risk of suicide. Digital technology could support efforts to detect suicide risk and inform suicide prevention efforts. Objective This exploratory study examined the feasibility of monitoring online discussions about suicide among Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia. Methods Posts containing the terms suicide or suicidal were collected from a sample of Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia (N=203) and a random sample of control users (N=173) over a 200-day period. Frequency and timing of posts about suicide were compared between groups. The associations between posting about suicide and common mental health symptoms were examined. Results Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia posted more tweets about suicide (mean 7.10, SD 15.98) compared to control users (mean 1.89, SD 4.79; t374=-4.13, P<.001). Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia showed greater odds of tweeting about suicide compared to control users (odds ratio 2.15, 95% CI 1.42-3.28). Among all users, tweets about suicide were associated with tweets about depression (r=0.62, P<.001) and anxiety (r=0.45, P<.001). Conclusions Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia appear to commonly discuss suicide on social media, which is associated with greater discussion about other mental health symptoms. These findings should be interpreted cautiously, as it is not possible to determine whether online discussions about suicide correlate with suicide risk. However, these patterns of online discussion may be indicative of elevated risk of suicide observed in this patient group. There may be opportunities to leverage social media for supporting suicide prevention among individuals with schizophrenia.

Length of Deployments As a Predictor of Mental Health Symptoms in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryann Debeer ◽  
Sandra B. Morissette ◽  
Nathan A. Kimbrel ◽  
Eric C. Meyer ◽  
Suzy B. Gulliver
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Operation Iraqi Freedom ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Iraqi Freedom

Sex differences on MAYSI-2 mental health symptoms of juvenile detainees: Impact on status offenses and delinquency.

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Benner ◽  
J. Ron Nelson ◽  
Scott A. Stage ◽  
Mike Laederich ◽  
Nicole C. Ralston
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Juvenile Detainees ◽  
Status Offenses

Ambulance personnel: Systematic review of mental health symptoms.

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon L. Wagner ◽  
Nicole White ◽  
Cheryl Regehr ◽  
Marc White ◽  
Lynn E. Alden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Ambulance Personnel ◽  
Health Symptoms
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