Increasing Interest of Mass Communication Media and the General Public in the Distribution of Tweets About Mental Disorders: Observational Study.

Miguel Angel Alvarez de Mon Angel Asúnsolo-Del Barco Guillermo Lahera Javier Quintero Francisco Ferre Victor Pereira-Sanchez Felipe Ortuño Sánchez-Pedreño Melchor Alvarez De Mon

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2018)

American mainstream media outlets and the general public demonstrate a preferential interest for psychiatric diseases on Twitter. The heterogeneous weights given by the media outlets analyzed to the different mental health disorders and conditions are reflected in the responses of Twitter followers.

Keyphrases

mental health
social media
healthcare
mental illness
emergency department