Associations Between Affective States and Sexual and Health Status Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: Exploratory Study Using Social Media Data.
Zhi-Wei ZhengQing-Ling YangZhong-Qi LiuJia-Ling QiuJing GuYuan-Tao HaoChao SongZhong-Wei JiaChun HaoPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)
The MSM social media community mainly expressed their positive affect in the early morning and negative affect after midnight. Positive affective states were associated with being sexually active, whereas negative affective states were associated with health problems, mostly about mental health. Our finding suggests the potential to deliver different health-related intervention strategies (eg, psychological counseling and safe sex promotion) on a social media app according to the affective states of MSM in real time.
Keyphrases
- social media
- men who have sex with men
- mental health
- hiv testing
- health information
- hiv positive
- bipolar disorder
- healthcare
- mental illness
- randomized controlled trial
- public health
- electronic health record
- depressive symptoms
- human immunodeficiency virus
- human health
- risk assessment
- data analysis
- antiretroviral therapy
- physical activity