Public Attitudes Toward Anxiety Disorder on Sina Weibo: Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anxiety disorder has become a major clinical and public health problem, causing a significant economic burden worldwide. Public attitudes toward anxiety can impact the psychological state, help-seeking behavior, and social activities of people with anxiety disorder.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to explore public attitudes toward anxiety disorders and the changing trends of these attitudes by analyzing the posts related to anxiety disorders on Sina Weibo, a Chinese social media platform that has about 582 million users, as well as the psycholinguistic and topical features in the text content of the posts.

Methods

From April 2018 to March 2022, 325,807 Sina Weibo posts with the keyword "anxiety disorder" were collected and analyzed. First, we analy

SUBMITTER: Zhu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131780 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature