What do health providers and patients tweet about schizophrenia? Professor Mercedes Hernandez is a co-author on a study that answered this question by exploring trends in health information about schizophrenia exchanged by patients, doctors, and health organizations through tweets posted using the hashtag #schizophrenia.
Study results indicated that most tweets focused on improving schizophrenia literacy, followed by personal experience or motivation stories and biological explanations of the disorder. Results of the study were published in the journal Early Intervention in Psychiatry.