Social media and postsecondary student adoption of mental health labels: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many postsecondary students use social media at an age when mental health issues often arise for the first time. On social media, students describe their mental states or social interactions using psychiatric language. This is a process of mental health labelling as opposed to receiving a formal diagnosis from a psychiatrist. Despite substantial literature on psychiatric labelling effects such as stigma, little research has addressed the mechanisms and effects of labelling through social media. Our objective is to summarise the existing evidence to address this gap.

Methods and analysis

This review includes articles in English published since 1995 on how postsecondary students interact with mental health labels in their use of social media. We will consider empi

SUBMITTER: Alexander ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10868259 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature