Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study
IntroductionMultiple 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 fiel...
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| author | Faisal A. Nawaz Mehr Muhamad Adeel Riaz Christos Tsagkaris Umme H. Faisal Elisabeth Klager Maria Kletecka-Pulker Maria Kletecka-Pulker Oliver Kimberger Oliver Kimberger Harald Willschke Harald Willschke Nagina Khan Nagina Khan Meshal A. Sultan Meshal A. Sultan Atanas G. Atanasov Atanas G. Atanasov |
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| description | IntroductionMultiple 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.ObjectiveIn this study, we aim to evaluate the achieved outreach of psychiatry-related tweets using the hashtag #PsychTwitter.MethodsWe utilized the Symplur Signals research analytics tool to characterize tweets containing #PsychTwitter from the 20th of August, 2019, to the 20th of August, 2022.ResultsThe #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).ConclusionThis 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ced82ef4258d4e95ba48a466d197e14c2023-02-22T06:58:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-02-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.10653681065368Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis studyFaisal A. Nawaz0Mehr Muhamad Adeel Riaz1Christos Tsagkaris2Umme H. Faisal3Elisabeth Klager4Maria Kletecka-Pulker5Maria Kletecka-Pulker6Oliver Kimberger7Oliver Kimberger8Harald Willschke9Harald Willschke10Nagina Khan11Nagina Khan12Meshal A. Sultan13Meshal A. Sultan14Atanas G. Atanasov15Atanas G. Atanasov16Department of Psychiatry, Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Faisalabad Medical University, Faisalabad, PakistanEuropean Student Think Tank, Public Health and Policy Working Group, Amsterdam, NetherlandsAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani, IndiaLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaInstitute for Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaDepartment of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaDepartment of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaCenter for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, CanadaDepartment of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University Nevada, Henderson, NV, United States0Mental Health Center of Excellence, Al Jalila Children's Specialty Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates1College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria2Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzȩbiec, PolandIntroductionMultiple 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.ObjectiveIn this study, we aim to evaluate the achieved outreach of psychiatry-related tweets using the hashtag #PsychTwitter.MethodsWe utilized the Symplur Signals research analytics tool to characterize tweets containing #PsychTwitter from the 20th of August, 2019, to the 20th of August, 2022.ResultsThe #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).ConclusionThis 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1065368/fullsocial mediapsychiatryTwitterPsychTwitterhashtag |
| spellingShingle | Faisal A. Nawaz Mehr Muhamad Adeel Riaz Christos Tsagkaris Umme H. Faisal Elisabeth Klager Maria Kletecka-Pulker Maria Kletecka-Pulker Oliver Kimberger Oliver Kimberger Harald Willschke Harald Willschke Nagina Khan Nagina Khan Meshal A. Sultan Meshal A. Sultan Atanas G. Atanasov Atanas G. Atanasov Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study Frontiers in Public Health social media psychiatry PsychTwitter hashtag |
| title | Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study |
| title_full | Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study |
| title_fullStr | Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study |
| title_short | Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study |
| title_sort | impact of psychtwitter in promoting global psychiatry a hashtag analysis study |
| topic | social media psychiatry PsychTwitter hashtag |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1065368/full |
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