The view of #schizophrenia on Twitter (a splitting of the mind in 280 characters)

Şükrü Alperen KORKMAZ; Yasin DUMAN; Semra ULUSOY KAYMAK; Mustafa UĞURLU; Serdar CAN; Murat İlhan ATAGÜN; Görkem UĞURLU; Ali ÇAYKÖYLÜ

doi:https://doi.org/10.32322/jhsm.816310

Makale detayları

The view of #schizophrenia on Twitter (a splitting of the mind in 280 characters)

Yazarlar:

Şükrü Alperen KORKMAZ | Yasin DUMAN | Semra ULUSOY KAYMAK | Mustafa UĞURLU | Serdar CAN | Murat İlhan ATAGÜN | Görkem UĞURLU | Ali ÇAYKÖYLÜ

Yayıncı:

MediHealth Academy Yayıncılık

Ana Başlıklar:

Sağlık teşvikleri

Dergi:

Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine 2021 Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.91-95

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

1/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000482187

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

2636-8579

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32322/jhsm.816310

Özet:

 

Aim: The sharing about an important public health problem, schizophrenia is increasing on Twitter, whiches user number multiplies day by day. Stigmatization can be usually met in the disorder of complex etiology. In this study, we aimed to investigate perspectives and attitudes of community toward schizophrenia, schizopherene, schizophrenic, and paranoiac on social media -Twitter- in Turkey.

Material and Method: During about a month, totally 1200 Tweets that contain one of these -“schizophrenia, schizopherene, schizophrenic, paranoiac”- are analyzed and evaluated according to these words’ usage in a pilot sample. After establishing inter-rater reliability, they are evaluated in 5 main dimensions; a) mocking/humorous b) negative c) inappropriate d) anti-psychiatric e) medically appropriate. In addition, those who shared their age and gender were also recorded.

Results: It was seen that these four words were usually used “mocking/ humorous” (39.2% and “negative” (26%). The usage of the words in non-medical was predominant. Most medically appropriate usage belonged to “schizophrenia” (26.7%). The most “negative” and “mocking/ humorous” usage belonged to “schizophrenic” (33.2% and 45.8%, respectively). In terms of gender, the four words were used mocking/ humorous mostly in both gender (39.5% and 38.8%). Medically appropriate use of women was greater (14.8% vs 7.5%).

Conclusion: Our findings show that the presence of a great deal of misuse of schizophrenia and related words on Twitter. This misuse is quite a few pronounced by the adjective use of the disorder. At the time of the easiness of reaching information and social media usage the lack of knowledge, stigma and attitude problems toward schizophrenia is at an important level.

Makale detayları

The view of #schizophrenia on Twitter (a splitting of the mind in 280 characters)

Yazarlar: Şükrü Alperen KORKMAZ | Yasin DUMAN | Semra ULUSOY KAYMAK | Mustafa UĞURLU | Serdar CAN | Murat İlhan ATAGÜN | Görkem UĞURLU | Ali ÇAYKÖYLÜ

Yayıncı: MediHealth Academy Yayıncılık

Ana Başlıklar: Sağlık teşvikleri

Dergi: Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine 2021 Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.91-95

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 1/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000482187

Sıklık: İki Aylık

eISSN: 2636-8579

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32322/jhsm.816310

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Şükrü Alperen KORKMAZ | Yasin DUMAN | Semra ULUSOY KAYMAK | Mustafa UĞURLU | Serdar CAN | Murat İlhan ATAGÜN | Görkem UĞURLU | Ali ÇAYKÖYLÜ

Yayıncı:

MediHealth Academy Yayıncılık

Ana Başlıklar:

Sağlık teşvikleri

Dergi:

Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine 2021 Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.91-95

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

1/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000482187

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

2636-8579

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32322/jhsm.816310