Department of Psychiatry, Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Faisalabad Medical University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Front Public Health. 2023 Feb 22;11:1065368. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1065368. eCollection 2023.
Multiple studies have shown how valuable Twitter hashtags can be for promoting content related to different themes in the online community. This arena has grown into a rich data source for public health observation and understanding key trends in healthcare on a global scale. In the field of mental health in particular, it would be of benefit to understand and report the key stakeholders' (individual mental health professionals, academic organizations and their countries) trends and patterns of psychiatric knowledge and information dissemination using #PsychTwitter.
In this study, we aim to evaluate the achieved outreach of psychiatry-related tweets using the hashtag #PsychTwitter.
We utilized the Symplur Signals research analytics tool to characterize tweets containing #PsychTwitter from the 20th of August, 2019, to the 20th of August, 2022.
The #PsychTwitter movement resulted in 125,297 tweets that were shared by 40,058 Twitter users and generated a total of 492,565,230 impressions (views). The three largest identified groups of contributors were Doctors (13.8% of all tweets), Org. Advocacy (6.2% of all tweets), and Researcher/Academic (4% of all tweets) stakeholders. The top influential accounts consisted of 55 psychiatrists and 16 institutional or organizational accounts. The top 5 countries from where most of the tweets containing #PsychTwitter were shared include the United States (54.3% of all users), the United Kingdom (10.4% of all users), Canada (4.9% of all users), India (2% of all users), and Australia (1.8% of all users).
This is the first of its kind study featuring the influence and usage of #PsychTwitter and covering its global impact in the field of psychiatry using the Twitter platform. Our results indicate that Twitter represents a broadly used platform for mental health-related discussions.
多项研究表明，在网络社区中，推特标签对于推广与不同主题相关的内容是多么有价值。这个领域已经发展成为公共卫生观察和了解全球范围内医疗保健关键趋势的丰富数据源。特别是在心理健康领域，了解和报告关键利益相关者（个体心理健康专业人员、学术组织及其所在国家）使用#PsychTwitter 进行精神科知识和信息传播的趋势和模式将是有益的。
在这项研究中，我们旨在评估使用#PsychTwitter 标签的与精神病学相关推文的传播效果。
我们利用 Symplur Signals 研究分析工具，从 2019 年 8 月 20 日到 2022 年 8 月 20 日，对包含#PsychTwitter 的推文进行特征描述。
#PsychTwitter 运动产生了 125297 条推文，由 40058 名推特用户分享，产生了 492565230 次印象（浏览量）。贡献者中最大的三个群体是医生（所有推文的 13.8%）、组织倡导（所有推文的 6.2%）和研究人员/学术（所有推文的 4%）利益相关者。最有影响力的账户包括 55 名精神科医生和 16 个机构或组织账户。分享含有#PsychTwitter 的推文最多的前 5 个国家包括美国（所有用户的 54.3%）、英国（所有用户的 10.4%）、加拿大（所有用户的 4.9%）、印度（所有用户的 2%）和澳大利亚（所有用户的 1.8%）。
这是第一项研究#PsychTwitter 的影响力和使用情况，并利用推特平台展示其在精神病学领域的全球影响。我们的研究结果表明，推特是一个广泛用于心理健康相关讨论的平台。
