Title
Taming Mental-Health-Focused Popular Literature: A Crazy Idea?
Abstract
Providing tailored and easily accessible health information for mental health clinicians and patients can be enabled through Information Technology and Communications (ITC). The literature is mixed regarding the quality, utility and accessibility of health information in the popular press for this purpose. However, there is consensus that mental health information in the popular press is readily available, easily comprehended by patients, and is continually updated. We report the process by which mental-health-focused articles in the popular press are identified, screened, and disseminated to a large network of doctoral level psychologists (the PsyUSA network). We analyze 4-year article distribution and access data, and conclude that the distribution of mental-health-related popular press articles prompted article access. We leverage this experience to formulate a model for direct access to clinician-vetted mental-health-related popular press through a curated web based archive.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/978-1-61499-203-5-302
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
consumer health,information sharing,information retrieval,patient education,knowledge representation/organization,consumer informatics
Public relations,Knowledge management,Mental health,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
183
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert T. Zozus Jr.100.34
Audrey Bricker200.34
Rob Lunblad300.34
Dennis Elias400.34
Meredith Nahm500.34