Understanding the Mental Health Information Communication among the Seniors in China: Text Mining Analysis

Abstract

Ageing has become a worldwide challenge, especially in China, and mental disorders are always associated with ageing. Although previous studies have focused on a certain issue or a certain group of the population, more research on the mental health of the seniors needs to be done from a comprehensive perspective. This paper studies the mental health information communication among the Chinese seniors. Text mining methods were used for content analysis to find the main topic of mental health and social network analysis was applied to explore the connection between the seniors to study their communication. Results show that the senior online communities develop several active networks to communicate their mental health concerns, however their information communication remains at a shallow stage. This study could assist researchers on further study and provide practitioners with pertinent measures.