Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people are using social media more than usual routine because they rely on online sources to seek health information for themselves and their loved ones. The spread of inaccurate and misleading information via social media has a number of detrimental psychological effec...
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| description | During the COVID-19 pandemic, people are using social media more than usual routine because they rely on online sources to seek health information for themselves and their loved ones. The spread of inaccurate and misleading information via social media has a number of detrimental psychological effects on members of society. The aim of this systematic review was to describe the impact of social media on the mental health of the general population. An extensive systematic search was done till the last month of 2021 for collecting the evidence using the PRISMA technique. The search was mainly focused on the article leading with keywords and search engines used during the course of the study were Pubmed, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and Science direct. Articles for this study were selected based on the predetermined eligibility criteria and performed quality assessment by using the NHLBI quality assessment tool. Most of the studies included in this review are found fair (score between 9 and 12) quality. Out of 866 publications, 533 articles were included in the initial screening, after duplication removal 46 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility and 14 studies were selected for systematic review. In most of the studies, maximum participants used social media as a primary source of information. Relatively high rates of symptoms of depression (14.14% to 48.3%), anxiety (7.4% to 47.82%), and prevalence of stress increased to 37.67% are reported after exposure to social media for coverage of COVID-19 news in the general population. Risk factors of psychological distress are associated with female gender, younger age group, marital status, staying alone, and duration of exposure to mass media. Increased exposure to COVID-19 information through mass/social media is associated with highly significant levels of psychological health issues; mitigating the hazardous effect of social media exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological health of the general population is an international public health priority. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2e1e999514ea490da2278678181abe612023-02-16T12:27:08ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Education and Health Promotion2277-95312023-01-01121232310.4103/jehp.jehp_460_22Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic reviewUma PhalswalVani PujariRasmita SethiRanjana VermaDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, people are using social media more than usual routine because they rely on online sources to seek health information for themselves and their loved ones. The spread of inaccurate and misleading information via social media has a number of detrimental psychological effects on members of society. The aim of this systematic review was to describe the impact of social media on the mental health of the general population. An extensive systematic search was done till the last month of 2021 for collecting the evidence using the PRISMA technique. The search was mainly focused on the article leading with keywords and search engines used during the course of the study were Pubmed, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and Science direct. Articles for this study were selected based on the predetermined eligibility criteria and performed quality assessment by using the NHLBI quality assessment tool. Most of the studies included in this review are found fair (score between 9 and 12) quality. Out of 866 publications, 533 articles were included in the initial screening, after duplication removal 46 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility and 14 studies were selected for systematic review. In most of the studies, maximum participants used social media as a primary source of information. Relatively high rates of symptoms of depression (14.14% to 48.3%), anxiety (7.4% to 47.82%), and prevalence of stress increased to 37.67% are reported after exposure to social media for coverage of COVID-19 news in the general population. Risk factors of psychological distress are associated with female gender, younger age group, marital status, staying alone, and duration of exposure to mass media. Increased exposure to COVID-19 information through mass/social media is associated with highly significant levels of psychological health issues; mitigating the hazardous effect of social media exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological health of the general population is an international public health priority.http://www.jehp.net/article.asp?issn=2277-9531;year=2023;volume=12;issue=1;spage=23;epage=23;aulast=Phalswalanxietycovid-19depressiongeneral populationmass mediamental healthpandemicsocial media |
| spellingShingle | Uma Phalswal Vani Pujari Rasmita Sethi Ranjana Verma Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review Journal of Education and Health Promotion anxiety covid-19 depression general population mass media mental health pandemic social media |
| title | Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
| title_full | Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
| title_fullStr | Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
| title_short | Impact of social media on mental health of the general population during Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
| title_sort | impact of social media on mental health of the general population during covid 19 pandemic a systematic review |
| topic | anxiety covid-19 depression general population mass media mental health pandemic social media |
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