Domingo-Espiñeira Javier, Varaona Andrea, Montero María, Lara-Abelenda Francisco J, Gutierrez-Rojas Luis, Fernández Del Campo Elena Ameyugo, Rodriguez-Jimenez Roberto, Pinto da Costa Mariana, Ortega Miguel A, Alvarez-Mon M, Alvarez-Mon Miguel Angel
Department of Medicine and Medical Specialities, University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Spain.
Departamento Teoria de la Señal y Comunicaciones y Sistemas Telemáticos y Computación, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria de Telecomunicación, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Fuenlabrada, Spain.
Front Psychiatry. 2024 Apr 30;15:1369579. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1369579. eCollection 2024.
X (previously known as "Twitter") serves as a platform for open discussions on mental health, providing an avenue for scrutinizing public perspectives regarding psychiatry, psychology and their associated professionals.
To analyze the conversations happening on X about psychiatrists, psychologists, and their respective disciplines to understand how the public perception of these professionals and specialties has evolved over the last 15 years.
We collected and analyzed all tweets posted in English or Spanish between 2007 and 2023 referring to psychiatry, psychology, neurology, mental health, psychiatrist, psychologist, or neurologist using advance topic modelling and sentiment analysis.
A total of 403,767 tweets were analyzed, 155,217 (38%) were in English and 248,550 (62%) in Spanish. Tweets about mental health and mental health professionals and disciplines showed a consistent volume between 2011 and 2016, followed by a gradual increase from 2016 through 2022. The proportion of tweets discussing mental health doubled from 2016 to 2022, increasing from 20% to 67% in Spanish and from 15% to 45% in English. Several differences were observed on the volume of tweets overtime depending on the language they were written. Users associated each term with varied topics, such as seeking for help and recommendation for therapy, self-help resources, medication and side effects, suicide prevention, mental health in times of crisis, among others. The number of tweets mentioning these topics increased by 5-10% from 2016 to 2022, indicating a growing interest among the population. Emotional analysis showed most of the topics were associated with fear and anger.
The increasing trend in discussions about mental health and the related professionals and disciplines over time may signify an elevated collective awareness of mental health. Gaining insights into the topics around these matters and user's corresponding emotions towards them presents an opportunity to combat the stigma surrounding mental health more effectively.
X（前身为“推特”）是一个关于心理健康展开公开讨论的平台，为审视公众对精神病学、心理学及其相关专业人士的看法提供了一个途径。
分析X上关于精神科医生、心理学家及其各自学科的对话，以了解在过去15年里公众对这些专业人士和专业领域的认知是如何演变的。
我们使用先进的主题建模和情感分析，收集并分析了2007年至2023年期间发布的所有英文或西班牙文推文，这些推文提及精神病学、心理学、神经病学、心理健康、精神科医生、心理学家或神经科医生。
共分析了403,767条推文，其中155,217条（38%）为英文，248,550条（62%）为西班牙文。关于心理健康以及心理健康专业人士和学科的推文数量在2011年至2016年期间保持稳定，随后从2016年到2022年逐渐增加。讨论心理健康的推文比例从2016年到2022年翻了一番，西班牙文从20%增至67%，英文从15%增至45%。根据推文所使用的语言不同，观察到推文数量随时间的变化存在一些差异。用户将每个术语与不同的主题相关联，如寻求帮助和治疗建议、自助资源、药物及副作用、预防自杀、危机时期的心理健康等。提及这些主题的推文数量从2016年到2022年增加了5%-10%，表明公众兴趣日益浓厚。情感分析显示，大多数主题与恐惧和愤怒相关。
随着时间推移，关于心理健康以及相关专业人士和学科的讨论呈上升趋势，这可能意味着公众对心理健康的集体意识有所提高。深入了解围绕这些问题的主题以及用户对它们相应的情绪，为更有效地消除围绕心理健康的污名化现象提供了一个机会。
