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ArticleJMIR medical education2021

Twitter as a Mental Health Support System for Students and Professionals in the Medical Field.

Lisa Liu, Benjamin K P Woo

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Article in JMIR medical education, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lisa LiuDepartment of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7521-9777
Benjamin K P WooDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0127-4850
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Twitter is a rapidly growing social media site that has greatly integrated itself in the lives of students and professionals in the medical field. While Twitter has been found to be very helpful in facilitating education, there is also great potential for its usage as a social support system. Social support has become more essential as society grapples with declining mental health, particularly in the medical sector. In our previous paper, we saw that Twitter provides a promising tool to learn more about the online conversation about dementia and, in particular, the supportive network that can be created. Inspired by this, we decided to investigate the potential of using Twitter as a support system for students and professionals in the medical field. In this paper, we explore the current state of mental health in the medical field and suggest practical implementation methods for using Twitter.

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communitydepressionhealth professionalsmental healthphysician suicidesocial mediasocial supportTwitter

Identifiers

PMID33464210
PMCPMC7854042
OpenAlexW3113204572

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