ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2014
Another time point, a different story: one year effects of a social media intervention on the attitudes of young people towards mental health issues.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- An Experimental Investigation into Promoting Mental Health Service Use on Social Media: Effects of Source and Comments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Time to Change's social marketing campaign for a new target population: results from 2017 to 2019.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
- Youth Mental Health Services Utilization Rates After a Large-Scale Social Media Campaign: Population-Based Interrupted Time-Series Analysis.JMIR mental health · 2018Article
- Key Ingredients-Target Groups, Methods and Messages, and Evaluation-of Local-Level, Public Interventions to Counter Stigma and Discrimination: A Lived Experience Informed Selective Narrative Literature Review.Community mental health journal · 2018Review
- The association of exposure to suicide-related Internet content and emergency department visits in children: A population-based time series analysis.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2018Article
- How Is Marijuana Vaping Portrayed on YouTube? Content, Features, Popularity and Retransmission of Vaping Marijuana YouTube Videos.Journal of health communication · 2018Article
- Issues for eHealth in Psychiatry: Results of an Expert Survey.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Article
- Social media utilization in the cochlear implant community.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2015Article
- Attitudes towards suicide attempts broadcast on social media: an exploratory study of Chinese microblogs.PeerJ · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study extends an evaluation of a brief, social media intervention, called In One Voice, for raising mental health awareness and improving attitudes of youth and young adults towards mental health issues.
methodsA successive independent samples design assessed market penetration and attitudinal changes among the young people who completed an online questionnaire 1 year after (T3: n = 438) the intervention. This is compared with two samples that completed a survey either immediately before (T1: n = 403) or 2 months after (T2: n = 403) the campaign launch.
resultsThe proportion of respondents who remembered the campaign grew from 24.8 % at T2 to 48.6 % at T3. Elevated website activity on mindcheck.ca was sustained 1 year after In One Voice had ended. Small but significant reductions in personal stigma and social distance were detected from T1 and T3, which were not observed at T2. Respondents' self-rated ability to help others with mental health issues and to engage in positive behaviors relating to mental health issues (e.g., seeking information) did not improve significantly from T1 to T3.
conclusionsImproved attitudes towards mental health issues were observed among young people 1 year following a brief social media campaign. The campaign was less effective at providing the tools young people need to feel capable of helping someone who may be experiencing mental health issues, and motivating them to engage in constructive behaviors related to mental health.
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