Attitudes towards schizophrenia on YouTube: A content analysis of Finnish and Greek videos

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 307-324

  Athanasopoulou, Christina ^a   Suni, Sanna ^a   Hätönen, Heli ^a   Apostolakis, Ioannis ^b   Lionis, Christos ^c   Välimäki, Maritta ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

content analysis; mental disorders; Online videos; social media; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL STIGMA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; GREECE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939865580     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2015.1008485     Document Type: Article

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