Psychiatry on Twitter: Content Analysis of the Use of Psychiatric Terms in French.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the advent of digital technology and specifically user-generated contents in social media, new ways emerged for studying possible stigma of people in relation with mental health. Several pieces of work studied the discourse conveyed about psychiatric pathologies on Twitter considering mostly tweets in English and a limited number of psychiatric disorders terms. This paper proposes the first study to analyze the use of a wide range of psychiatric terms in tweets in French.

Objective

Our aim is to study how generic, nosographic, and therapeutic psychiatric terms are used on Twitter in French. More specifically, our study has 3 complementary goals: (1) to analyze the types of psychiatric word use (medical, misuse, or irrelevant), (2) to analyze the polarity conv

SUBMITTER: Delanys S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8887636 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature