Background: A growing gap has emerged between people with mental illness and health
care professionals, which in recent years has been successfully closed through the adoption …

Background The internet has now become part of human life and is constantly changing
people's way of life. With the increasing popularity of online health information (OHI), it has …

Social media has become a prominent fixture in the lives of many individuals facing the
challenges of mental illness. Social media refers broadly to web and mobile platforms that …

We are all together in a fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Chatbots, if effectively
designed and deployed, could help us by sharing up-to-date information quickly …

Aims: People with serious mental illness are increasingly turning to popular social media,
including Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, to share their illness experiences or seek advice …

Depression is ranked as the largest contributor to global disability and is also a major
reason for suicide. Still, many individuals suffering from forms of depression are not treated …

The development of internet information technology has promoted the integration of modern
information technology with medical treatment. Chinese interprovincial panel data from 2006 …

Background: Serious mental illness (SMI) is one of the leading causes of disability
worldwide. Emerging mobile health (mHealth) and eHealth interventions may afford …

Increasingly, people with diverse health conditions turn to social media to share their illness
experiences or seek advice from others with similar health concerns. This unstructured …

Background The insurance mandate of the Affordable Care Act has increased the number of
people with health coverage in the United States. There is speculation that this increase in …