探索不列颠哥伦比亚省青少年如何使用 TikTok 获取心理健康信息:针对青少年的半结构式访谈研究。

IF 3.5 Q1 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
JMIR infodemiology Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI:10.2196/53233
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背景在 COVID-19 大流行期间,TikTok(字节舞动)作为人们与他人互动、分享与大流行相关的经历和想法以及应对当前心理健康挑战的一种方式,人气激增。然而,很少有研究探讨青少年如何使用 TikTok 学习心理健康知识:本研究旨在了解在 COVID-19 大流行期间,青少年如何使用 TikTok 学习心理健康知识和心理健康支持:我们对居住在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的 21 名青少年(12-24 岁)进行了半结构化访谈,他们在 COVID-19 大流行期间曾使用 TikTok 获取心理健康信息。对访谈进行了录音、逐字记录、编码,并采用归纳式数据驱动方法进行了分析:共确定了 3 个描述青少年经历的重要主题。第一个主题的中心是 TikTok 如何为青少年提供获取心理健康信息和支持的便捷途径,这在 COVID-19 大流行期间尤其有用,可以抑制社会隔离的影响和获取心理健康服务的额外挑战。第二个主题描述了该平台如何为青年提供联系,因为它为青年提供了一个谈论心理健康的安全空间,并让他们感到自己被其他经历相似的人看到。这有助于心理健康对话的正常化和去污名化,并提高人们对各种心理健康问题的认识。最后,最后一个主题关注的是这些信息是如何促成行动的,比如尝试不同的应对策略、 与同伴和家人讨论心理健康问题、获取心理健康服务,以及在就诊时为自己辩护。在这三个主题中,青少年表示必须注意偏见和错误信息,强调了识别和报告错误信息以及在平台上提供个性化建议的障碍:研究结果表明,TikTok 可以作为一种有用的工具,提高人们对心理健康的认识,减少耻辱感,鼓励青少年了解并应对他们的心理健康挑战,同时提供同伴联系和支持。与此同时,TikTok 也会通过重复接触精神痛苦的内容和误导性的诊断和治疗信息,对心理健康产生不利影响。需要制定针对有害内容的法规来降低这些风险,使 TikTok 对青少年更加安全。还应努力提高青年的媒体和健康素养,使他们能够更好地评估自己在网上消费的信息。
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Exploring How Youth Use TikTok for Mental Health Information in British Columbia: Semistructured Interview Study With Youth.

Background: TikTok (ByteDance) experienced a surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way for people to interact with others, share experiences and thoughts related to the pandemic, and cope with ongoing mental health challenges. However, few studies have explored how youth use TikTok to learn about mental health.

Objective: This study aims to understand how youth used TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic to learn about mental health and mental health support.

Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 21 youths (aged 12-24 years) living in British Columbia, Canada, who had accessed TikTok for mental health information during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed using an inductive, data-driven approach.

Results: A total of 3 overarching themes were identified describing youth's experiences. The first theme centered on how TikTok gave youth easy access to mental health information and support, which was particularly helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic to curb the effects of social isolation and the additional challenges of accessing mental health services. The second theme described how the platform provided youth with connection, as it gave youth a safe space to talk about mental health and allowed them to feel seen by others going through similar experiences. This helped normalize and destigmatize conversations about mental health and brought awareness to various mental health conditions. Finally, the last theme focused on how this information led to action, such as trying different coping strategies, discussing mental health with peers and family, accessing mental health services, and advocating for themselves during medical appointments. Across the 3 themes, youth expressed having to be mindful of bias and misinformation, highlighting the barriers to identifying and reporting misinformation and providing individualized advice on the platform.

Conclusions: Findings suggest that TikTok can be a useful tool to increase mental health awareness, reduce stigma, and encourage youth to learn and address their mental health challenges while providing a source of peer connection and support. Simultaneously, TikTok can adversely impact mental health through repetitive exposure to mentally distressing content and misleading diagnosis and treatment information. Regulations against harmful content are needed to mitigate these risks and make TikTok safer for youth. Efforts should also be made to increase media and health literacy among youth so that they can better assess the information they consume online.

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