Department of Health and Caring Sciences, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden.
Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2018 Apr;27(2):804-813. doi: 10.1111/inm.12367. Epub 2017 Jun 29.
Scholars across different disciplines use Twitter to promote research and to communicate with society. Most conferences nowadays have their unique hashtag in which participants can communicate in real time. Previous research has reported on conference participants' use of Twitter, but no such studies are available in the field of mental health nursing. Thus, the explicit aim of the present study was to examine conference participants' use of Twitter during the 42nd International Mental Health Nursing Conference. Freely-accessible data were mined via a social media platform under the hashtag #acmhn2016. The total dataset consisted of 1973 tweets, and was analysed with descriptive statistics and a directed content analysis. The results demonstrated that 37% of the tweets were original posts, and 63% were engagements. In total, 184 individual accounts engaged in Twitter during the conference, and 16.4 tweets were posted hourly. Most tweets were categorized as conference/session-related content, but Twitter was also used for socializing with other participants. The most frequently-used words mirror a clear connection to a person-centred approach, and deviate from the biomedical terminology. However, not all of the conference participants engaged on Twitter, and might thereby risk being excluded from this backchannel.
不同学科的学者都在使用 Twitter 来推广研究成果并与社会进行交流。如今，大多数会议都有自己独特的标签，与会者可以实时进行交流。之前的研究已经报道了会议参与者对 Twitter 的使用情况，但在心理健康护理领域还没有这样的研究。因此，本研究的明确目的是考察第 42 届国际心理健康护理会议期间会议参与者对 Twitter 的使用情况。通过一个名为#acmhn2016 的社交媒体平台挖掘了免费获取的数据。总数据集由 1973 条推文组成，采用描述性统计和定向内容分析进行分析。结果表明，37%的推文是原创帖子，63%是参与帖。在会议期间，共有 184 个个人账户参与了 Twitter 活动，每小时发布 16.4 条推文。大多数推文都属于会议/会议相关内容，但 Twitter 也被用于与其他与会者社交。使用频率最高的词反映了与以患者为中心的方法的明确联系，并且与生物医学术语不同。然而，并非所有的会议参与者都在 Twitter 上进行互动，因此他们可能有被排除在这个交流渠道之外的风险。
