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Social networking sites: an adjunctive treatment modality for psychological problems
Indu S Menon1, Manoj Kumar Sharma1, Prabha S Chandra2
1Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of mental Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Background:
Social networking is seen as a way to enhance social support and feeling of well-being. The present work explores the potentials of social networking sites as an adjunctive treatment modality for initiating treatment contact as well as for managing psychological problems.
Materials And Methods:
Interview schedule, Facebook intensity questionnaire were administered on 28 subjects with a combination of 18 males and 10 females. They were taken from the in-patient and out-patient psychiatry setting of the hospital.
Results:
Facebook was the most popular sites and used to seek emotional support on the basis of the frequent updates of emotional content that users put in their profile; reconciliations, escape from the problems or to manage the loneliness; getting information about illness and its treatment and interaction with experts and also manifested as problematic use.
Conclusions:
It has implications for developing social networking based adjunctive treatment modality for psychological problems.
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