UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION DISPLAYS ON TWITTER AND IDENTIFYING WAYS TO INTERVENE

项目摘要 Twitter是最受欢迎的社交网站之一，拥有庞大的年轻成年用户基础。研究 已经表明，在Twitter上，关于抑郁症的社交网络是相对常见的。它确实是 令人担忧的是，个人在社交网络上谈论与抑郁症相关的话题，特别是当推文 包括自我伤害和自杀念头。确定这些推文与自我的一致性程度 报告的抑郁症状，关于抑郁的网络动机，用户的程度 寻求帮助的人获得精神卫生保健及其对接触方法的偏好 这些都是这一研究领域中重要的下一步。在这笔赠款中，我们建议进行一项小型投资研究，以 了解我们可以在多大程度上使用Twitter帖子来正确识别和招募正在苦苦挣扎的人 患有抑郁症相关症状学。这项提案的总体目标是探索战略以确定 并帮助那些感到抑郁、考虑自杀和/或从事自我伤害的人 并在推特上表达这些挣扎。在目标1中，我们将确定Twitter是否可以帮助我们 正确识别与抑郁症及相关因素(如自杀/自残)作斗争的个体 使用不同的招聘方法。在目标2中，我们将发现特定的感知优势/劣势 对于推特上关于抑郁症的社交网络，有多少参与者已经参与了心理健康 系统，以及参与者对通过Twitter接近有需要的人的方法的建议和偏好。我们的 这项研究对理解社交媒体上关于抑郁症的网络和 探索危机干预的潜在策略。

Project Summary Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites, with a substantial young adult user base. Research has signaled that social networking about depression is a relatively common occurrence on Twitter. It is indeed worrisome that individuals are socially networking about depression-related topics, especially when the tweets involve self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Determining the degree to which these tweets correspond with self- reported depression symptoms, motivation for networking about depression, the extent to which users are accessing mental health care and their preferences for methods of engagement from those seeking to help them are all important next steps in this line of research. In this grant, we propose a small investment study to learn the extent that we can use Twitter posts to correctly identify and recruit individuals who are struggling with depression-related symptomatology. The overall aim of this proposal is to explore strategies for identifying and helping individuals who are feeling depressed, contemplating suicide, and/or engaging in self-harm behaviors and expressing these struggles on Twitter. In Aim 1, we will determine if Twitter can help us to correctly identify individuals who are struggling with depression and related factors (e.g., suicide/self-harm) using different recruitment methods. In Aim 2, we will discover specific perceived advantages/disadvantages for networking about depression on Twitter, how much participants are already engaged with the mental health system, and participant suggestions and preferences for methods to approach people in need via Twitter. Our study has important implications for understanding the networking about depression on social media and for exploring potential strategies for crisis intervention.