Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak

This chapter attempts to unfold the trend and nature of mainstream and social media coverage on mental health issues in Nepal through suicide case of Yama Buddha, a popular musician. Using the securitization theory and concepts of threat construction and threat neutralization, major findings through content analysis and key informant interviews reveal reputed mainstream media following cautious route towards threat neutralization and therefore, maintaining a level of journalistic professionalism. However, especially in the other online media, blogs, and other social media, there were sensationalist words and tone used to attract the audience, triggering various sorts of emotional responses, thereby fulfilling the act of securitization. Major recommendations from this chapter include more awareness and understanding about the nature and type of mental health problems; capacity building of journalists and media professionals to better understand and report on mental health problems; development and proper implementation of media guidelines on reporting mental health issues.

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WOMEN’S RECEPTION ON SOCIAL SUPPORT IN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT @gethappy.id

WACANA, Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Komunikasi ◽

10.32509/wacana.v19i1.997 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 40

Author(s):

Sari Monik Agustin ◽

Agatha Josephine

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Support ◽

Social Media ◽

Physical Health ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Problems ◽

Female Group ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Physical Health Problems

Previous research also shows that social media has positive and negative roles related to interpersonal relationships and mental health. The social media used significantly increases social capital and mental well-being, which benefits people with low self-esteem and life satisfaction. Some psychotherapists even use an Instagram platform as their therapeutic medium. This preliminary study frameworks are Stuart Hall’s reception theory, the concept elaborations of social support and online social support, as well as a discussion of the character of social media, Instagram. This paper is based on a qualitative research with data from interviews with 3 female informants on 20-29 years old and gethappy.id account followers. This research succeeded in identifying 2 receptions that emerged from the female group of Instagram account followers gethappy.id. The dominant reader comes from informants who have severe physical health problems and mental health problems related to these physical health problems. Meanwhile, negotiating reader arise from informants who do not have personal physical and mental health problems, but who have a social environment with physical and mental health problems. Another important finding is that the main social support remains family and friends. Social media support is needed when the two main social supports are not present.

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The Effect of Social Media Exposure on the Mental Health of Individuals with Disabilities during the Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic

Journal of Educational and Social Research ◽

10.36941/jesr-2021-0086 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 167

Author(s):

Rasheed Khuwayshan Algethami ◽

Turki Mahdi Alqarni ◽

Fahmi Mustafa Albakour

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Media Exposure ◽

Care Providers ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Individuals With Disabilities ◽

Epidemic Period

The purpose of this study is to examine the mental health problems and social media exposure for individuals with disabilities, as well as explore whether this exposure could impact their mental health during the COVID-19 epidemic period. A hundred and twenty individuals with disabilities participated in this cross-sectional study, conducted in Taif, Saudi Arabia. We used an online questionnaire built through the translation of two scales, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 " GAD-7" and CES-D-10 scale assessing depression. The findings of this study underlined important messages for individuals with disabilities. First finding revealed that individuals with disabilities were almost half a day anxious, depressed, and frequently exposed to social media. Also, the information spread on social media had a significant effect on their anxiety level, but no significant effect was found on their depression level. Practical recommendations were highlighted to benefit these individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic period. We should use clear and accessible languages and health messages with individuals with disabilities. Health care providers should be exposed to an awareness program to reduce the racisms towards those individuals. Received: 8 March 2021 / Accepted: 23 June 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021

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The language of mental health problems in social media

10.18653/v1/w16-0307 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

George Gkotsis ◽

Anika Oellrich ◽

Tim Hubbard ◽

Richard Dobson ◽

Maria Liakata ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Health Problems

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Gender differences of depression and anxiety among social media users during the COVID-19 outbreak in China:a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-020-09738-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fengsu Hou ◽

Fengying Bi ◽

Rong Jiao ◽

Dan Luo ◽

Kangxing Song

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Gender Differences ◽

Social Media ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Health Problems ◽

Anxiety Symptoms ◽

Depression Symptoms ◽

Depression And Anxiety ◽

Prevalence Of Depression

Abstract Background Studies have shown that the outbreak of infectious diseases would result in mental health problems. Females are in greater risk for psychological problems than males. The present study investigated gender differences of depression and anxiety and explored associated factors during the COVID-19 epidemic among Chinese social media users. Methods We recruited 3088 participants through social media cross China. Participants completed sociodemographic and the COVID-19 epidemic related questions, the 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2), and the 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-2), the Chinese version of the 10-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. We applied Chi-square test and ANOVA for data description and linear regression analysis for exploring factors associated with depression and anxiety. Results Of 3063 participants eligible for analysis, the total prevalence of depression and anxiety was 14.14 and 13.25%. Females were experiencing more severe stress and anxiety symptoms, while males showed better resilience to stress. The severity of depression symptoms would decrease with the increase of age resilience, and it would increase if being unemployed, feeling less adapted, being more stressed. The severity of anxiety symptoms would decrease with higher education and better resilience, and it would increase if being female, spending over 60 min on COVID-19 related information, less adapted, and being more stressed. Conclusion The findings show the increased prevalence of depression and anxiety in Chinese population during the COVID-19 epidemic, and females are experiencing more severe anxiety symptoms than males. As social media is the current main resource of information related to COVID-19, interventions should be implemented to help users to limit the time they spend on social media and to get key information related to the epidemic from authoritative and authentic resource to avoid infodemic and prevent mental health problems.

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Media, Social Media, and the Securitization of Mental Health Problems in Nepal

Deconstructing Stigma in Mental Health - Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3808-0.ch003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 42-69

Author(s):

Sudeep Uprety ◽

Rajesh Ghimire

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Health Problems ◽

Health Issues ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Mental Health Issues ◽

Securitization Theory ◽

Journalistic Professionalism

This chapter attempts to unfold the trend and nature of mainstream and social media coverage on mental health issues in Nepal through suicide case of Yama Buddha, a popular musician. Using the securitization theory and concepts of threat construction and threat neutralization, major findings through content analysis and key informant interviews reveal reputed mainstream media following cautious route towards threat neutralization and therefore, maintaining a level of journalistic professionalism. However, especially in the other online media, blogs, and other social media, there were sensationalist words and tone used to attract the audience, triggering various sorts of emotional responses, thereby fulfilling the act of securitization. Major recommendations from this chapter include more awareness and understanding about the nature and type of mental health problems; capacity building of journalists and media professionals to better understand and report on mental health problems; development and proper implementation of media guidelines on reporting mental health issues.

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Predicting Mental Health Problems with Automatic Identification of Metaphors

Journal of Healthcare Engineering ◽

10.1155/2021/5582714 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Nan Shi ◽

Dongyu Zhang ◽

Lulu Li ◽

Shengjun Xu

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Health Status ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Health Problems ◽

Automatic Identification ◽

Social Phobias ◽

Anxiety Depression ◽

Better Than

Mental health problems are prevalent and an important issue in medicine. However, clinical diagnosis of mental health problems is costly, time-consuming, and often significantly delayed, which highlights the need for novel methods to identify them. Previous psycholinguistic and psychiatry research has suggested that the use of metaphors in texts is linked to the mental health status of the authors. In this paper, we propose a method for automatically detecting metaphors in texts to predict various mental health problems, specifically anxiety, depression, inferiority, sensitivity, social phobias, and obsession. We perform experiments on a composition dataset collected from second-language students and on the eRisk2017 dataset collected from Social Media. The experimental results show that our approach can help predict mental health problems in authors of written texts, and our algorithm performs better than other state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we report that the use of metaphors even in nonnative languages can be indicative of various mental health problems.

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Tube therapy: Dealing with mental health problems in social video comment threads

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v24i5.9569 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Simon Lindgren ◽

Ragnar Lundström

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Peer Support ◽

Semantic Analysis ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Health Problems ◽

Health Conditions ◽

Media Space ◽

Complex Relationships ◽

The Individual

In this paper, we examine forms of communication and types of peer support that may arise in relation to mental health problems in peer-produced forums of social video comment threads. We focus specifically on how young fans of young YouTube celebrities (YouTubers) use this social media space to communicate with other YouTubers as well as with other fans about issues related to mental health. Through a semantic analysis, where topical themes in comment discussions are mapped, we address topics concerning mental health conditions in social video fandom discussions. At an overarching level, we are interested in how peer support is realized in the complex relationships between YouTubers and audience members, as well as among audience members. In our analysis, we focus on both the relationships between the individual and the collective, and between cooperation and competition in discussions. In concluding, we reflect upon what hindrances or possibilities for peer support exist in this relatively new and participatory social media setting.

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