Use of Twitter to monitor attitudes toward depression and schizophrenia: an exploratory study

Introduction. The paper reports on an exploratory study of the usefulness of Twitter for unobtrusive assessment of stigmatizing attitudes in the community.Materials and Methods. Tweets with the hashtags #depression or #schizophrenia posted on Twitter during a 7-day period were collected. Tweets were...

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Main Authors: Nicola J. Reavley, Pamela D. Pilkington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/647.pdf