Uçar Halit Necmi, Eray Şafak, Kocael Ömer, Uçar Lütfi, Kaymak Müslüm, Lettieri Emanuele, Vural Ayşe Pinar
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Van Education and Research Hospital, Van, Turkey,
Psychiatr Danub. 2018 Dec;30(4):395-403. doi: 10.24869/psyd.2018.395.
Fascinating developments in big data technologies and unprecedented diffusion of social networking sites (SNSs) generate unseen opportunities for scientific fields, including psychiatry. This study focuses on the use of SNSs by adolescent psychiatric patients and the potential use of SNS-generated data to help medical practitioners diagnose and treat patients' mental health. Our objective is to understand and measure the psychiatric and individual conditions in which symptom-sharing occurs on SNSs and the frequency of these conditions. Based on literature, we hypothesized that the perceived value of social network sites positively affects adolescents' sharing of symptoms on these sites.
An empirical test of this hypothesis was conducted with a survey of 224 adolescents admitted to a psychiatry clinic in Turkey. The hypothesis was tested using a hierarchical multiple regression analysis.
The perceived value of SNSs explained an additional 37.8% of variation in symptom sharing on SNSs above and beyond the control variables, which are gender, age, type of disorder, and amount of internet and SNS use. The findings suggested that adolescents share symptoms on SNSs only if they attribute value to the SNSs that they use. We also found that 72% of adolescents in our sample shared their symptoms on SNSs.
There is an attractive opportunity for information technology companies to develop, together with health professionals; data analytics that are able to detect symptoms to support psychiatric diagnoses and pave the way for big-data enabled personalized medicine.
大数据技术的惊人发展以及社交网站（SNS）前所未有的普及为包括精神病学在内的科学领域带来了前所未有的机遇。本研究聚焦于青少年精神病患者对社交网站的使用情况，以及社交网站生成的数据在帮助医生诊断和治疗患者心理健康方面的潜在用途。我们的目标是了解和衡量在社交网站上出现症状分享的精神病学和个体状况以及这些状况的发生频率。基于文献，我们假设社交网站的感知价值对青少年在这些网站上分享症状有积极影响。
通过对土耳其一家精神病诊所收治的224名青少年进行调查，对这一假设进行实证检验。使用分层多元回归分析对假设进行检验。
社交网站的感知价值在控制变量（性别、年龄、疾病类型、互联网和社交网站使用量）之外，又解释了社交网站上症状分享变异的37.8%。研究结果表明，青少年只有在认为自己使用的社交网站有价值时才会在上面分享症状。我们还发现，样本中72%的青少年在社交网站上分享了自己的症状。
信息技术公司与健康专业人员合作开发能够检测症状以支持精神病诊断并为大数据驱动的个性化医疗铺平道路的数据分析，存在诱人的机会。
