Twittering on about mental health: Is it worth the effort?

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-3

  Jayaram, Mahesh ^a,b   Moran, Lindsay ^a   Adams, Clive ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85010645113     PISSN: 13620347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2016-102580     Document Type: Article

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