Using social media to monitor mental health discussions-evidence from Twitter

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 496-502

  Mcclellan, Chandler ^a   Ali, Mir M ^a   Mutter, Ryan ^a   Kroutil, Larry ^b   Landwehr, Justin ^b  

^a SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arima; Health communicationof the population who are abandoning traditional; Mental health; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; TWITTER; MENTAL HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNICATION; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 85019731968     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocw133     Document Type: Article

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