CIET-PRAM, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CIET-PRAM, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
BMJ Open. 2024 Feb 13;14(2):e078193. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078193.
Many postsecondary students use social media at an age when mental health issues often arise for the first time. On social media, students describe their mental states or social interactions using psychiatric language. This is a process of mental health labelling as opposed to receiving a formal diagnosis from a psychiatrist. Despite substantial literature on psychiatric labelling effects such as stigma, little research has addressed the mechanisms and effects of labelling through social media. Our objective is to summarise the existing evidence to address this gap.
This review includes articles in English published since 1995 on how postsecondary students interact with mental health labels in their use of social media. We will consider empirical studies and theses. The search strategy includes SCOPUS, PubMed, OVID MEDLINE (to access APA PsycINFO), Web of Science and ProQuest Global Dissertations and Theses. This scoping review follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extensions for protocols and Scoping Reviews guidelines. The artificial intelligence application, Connected Papers, will assist in identifying additional references. The outcomes of interest are labelling by self or others and changes in self-concept and presentation associated with these labels. Two researchers will independently identify the included studies and extract data, solving disagreements with a third opinion. We will produce tables and narrative descriptions of the operationalisation and measurement methods of labelling and social media use, reported effects and uses of labelling, and explanatory mechanisms for the adoption of labels.
This literature review does not require ethics approval. The researchers will present their findings for publication in an open-access peer-reviewed journal and at student/scientific conferences. Potential knowledge users include university students, social media users, researchers, mental health professionals and on-campus mental health services.
许多大学生在首次出现心理健康问题的年龄就开始使用社交媒体。在社交媒体上，学生们使用精神科术语来描述自己的精神状态或社交互动。这是一种心理健康标签的过程，而不是从精神科医生那里获得正式诊断。尽管有大量关于精神科标签效应的文献，如污名化，但很少有研究通过社交媒体探讨标签的机制和效应。我们的目的是总结现有证据，以填补这一空白。
本综述包括自 1995 年以来以英语发表的关于大学生如何在使用社交媒体时与心理健康标签互动的文章。我们将考虑实证研究和论文。搜索策略包括 SCOPUS、PubMed、OVID MEDLINE（访问 APA PsycINFO）、Web of Science 和 ProQuest 全球论文和论文。本范围综述遵循系统评价和元分析扩展协议以及范围综述指南。人工智能应用程序 Connected Papers 将有助于识别其他参考文献。感兴趣的结果是自我或他人的标签以及与这些标签相关的自我概念和呈现的变化。两位研究人员将独立识别纳入的研究并提取数据，解决分歧时将征求第三方意见。我们将制作表格和叙述性描述标签和社交媒体使用的操作化和测量方法、报告的影响和标签的使用以及标签采用的解释机制。
本文献综述不需要伦理批准。研究人员将在开放获取的同行评审期刊和学生/科学会议上展示他们的研究结果。潜在的知识用户包括大学生、社交媒体用户、研究人员、心理健康专业人员和校园心理健康服务。
