Social Media and Mental Health: Benefits, Risks, and Opportunities for Research and Practice.
Social Media and Mental Health: Benefits, Risks, and Opportunities for Research and Practice.
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10.1007/s41347-020-00134-x
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2020-09
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Aschbrenner KA
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Naslund JA;Bondre A;Torous J;Aschbrenner KA
社交媒体平台是精神疾病患者分享个人经历、寻求信息和提供点对点支持的热门场所。由于美国和全球范围内循证心理健康服务的可用性、质量和覆盖范围都存在严重不足，社交媒体平台可能会提供新的机会来弥补这一差距。然而，需要谨慎行事，因为大量研究强调了使用社交媒体对心理健康的风险。在这篇评论中，我们认为社交媒体作为一个潜在可行的干预平台的作用，可以为精神障碍患者提供支持，促进参与和保留护理，并加强现有的精神卫生服务。具体来说，我们总结了当前关于心理健康服务用户使用社交媒体的研究，以及使用社交媒体提供循证项目的早期努力。我们还审查了使用社交媒体促进心理健康的风险、潜在危害和必要的安全预防措施。总之，我们探索利用数据科学和机器学习的机会，例如通过利用社交媒体来检测精神障碍并开发旨在描述精神障碍的病因和进展的预测模型。正如本评论所总结的，这些利用社交媒体所做的各种努力有望改善精神障碍患者的生活。
Social media platforms are popular venues for sharing personal experiences, seeking information, and offering peer-to-peer support among individuals living with mental illness. With significant shortfalls in the availability, quality, and reach of evidence-based mental health services across the United States and globally, social media platforms may afford new opportunities to bridge this gap. However, caution is warranted, as numerous studies highlight risks of social media use for mental health. In this commentary, we consider the role of social media as a potentially viable intervention platform for offering support to persons with mental disorders, promoting engagement and retention in care, and enhancing existing mental health services. Specifically, we summarize current research on the use of social media among mental health service users, and early efforts using social media for the delivery of evidence-based programs. We also review the risks, potential harms, and necessary safety precautions with using social media for mental health. To conclude, we explore opportunities using data science and machine learning, for example by leveraging social media for detecting mental disorders and developing predictive models aimed at characterizing the aetiology and progression of mental disorders. These various efforts using social media, as summarized in this commentary, hold promise for improving the lives of individuals living with mental disorders.