scholarly journals Twitter as a Mental Health Support System for Students and Professionals in the Medical Field (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Liu ◽  
Benjamin KP Woo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Support System ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Medical Sector ◽  
Social Media Site ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Online Conversation

UNSTRUCTURED Twitter is a rapidly growing social media site that has greatly integrated itself in the lives of students and professionals in the medical field. While Twitter has been found to be very helpful in facilitating education, there is also great potential for its usage as a social support system. Social support has become more essential as society grapples with declining mental health, particularly in the medical sector. From our previous paper, we saw how Twitter provides a promising tool to learn more about the online conversation about dementia, and in particular, the supportive network that can be created. Inspired by this, we decided to investigate the potential of utilizing Twitter as a support system for students and professionals in the medical field. In this paper, we explore the current state of mental health in the medical field and we suggest practical implementation methods of using Twitter.

scholarly journals China’s mental health support in response to COVID-19: progression, challenges and reflection

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumeng Ju ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Xiaoping Wang ◽  
Weihui Li ◽  
Roger M. K. Ng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Support System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Health Support ◽  
Proactive Measures

Abstract The continued spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a serious impact on everyone across the globe, both physically and psychologically. In addition to proactive measures addressing physical survival needs and health protection, China has launched a mental health support system to cope with the widespread psychological stress during the pandemic and its aftermath. In this debate, the authors attempted to depict and reflect upon the overall framework of China’s mental health support, with particular reference to the psychological intervention in response to COVID-19 over the last few months. Although a lot of effort has been made to meet the mental health needs, the accessibility, acceptability and effectiveness of the support system still have much room for improvement. Therefore, it is very important to re-think the predicament and challenge on ways of enhancing public mental health emergency responses in China. The concepts of universality, timeliness and scientific rigour were proposed as a possible reform in preparation for large-scale natural or man-made disasters in the coming future.

Types of social support associated with depression in the UK adult population

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOO YIN TAN 1 ◽  
SOO Shi Hui Joy 1 ◽  
Keming YANG 3
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Health Support ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Mental Well Being

Many well-established sociological studies pertaining to the salubrious link between social relations and mental health have been published. In particular, numerous researchers address the issue of how social isolation and lack of family support and social ties can adversely affect one’s mental well-being. In this paper, we seek to identify and explore the relationships between people who were clinically diagnosed with depression and the aspects of their social environment, namely their social and family circumstances in the UK adult population. One hundred and ten blogs mentioning depression as their main condition were selected from a mental health support website, Time-to-Change, for analysis. As not many studies have analysed such narratives, we expected the analysis to provide a fresher and deeper understanding of the experiences of those afflicted with depression. We observed that there is a consistent discourse emphasising the importance of social support from close loved ones, in particular friends and family members. There is evidence that social circumstances can be mediating factors in depression. 

Compulsory educational mental health support system in Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-534
Author(s):  
Akihiro Nishio ◽  
Machi Kakimoto ◽  
Ryo Horita ◽  
Mayumi Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Support System ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Health Support
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