Mental health discourses on Twitter during Mental Health Awareness Week

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Authors
Makita, Meiko
Mas-Bleda, Amalia
Morris, Scott
Thelwall, Mike
Issue Date
2020-09-14

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Abstract
Promoting health-related campaigns on Twitter has increasingly become a world-wide choice to raise awareness and disseminate health information. Data retrieved from Twitter are now being used to explore how users express their views, attitudes and personal experiences of health-related issues. We focused on Twitter discourse reproduced during Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 by examining 1,200 tweets containing the keywords ‘mental health’, ‘mental illness’, ‘mental disorders’ and ‘#MHAW’. The analysis revealed ‘awareness and advocacy’, ‘stigmatization’, and ‘personal experience of mental health/illness’ as the central discourses within the sample. The article concludes with some recommendations for future research on digitally-mediated health communication.
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Makita, M., Mas-Bleda, A., Morris, S. and Thelwall, M. (2020) Mental health discourses on Twitter during Mental Health Awareness Week, Issues in Mental Health Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2020.1814914
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Journal
Issues in Mental Health Nursing
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2436/623580
DOI
10.1080/01612840.2020.1814914
Type
Journal article
Language
en
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Issues in Mental Health Nursing on 14/09/2020. The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
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0161-2840
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