在COVID-19大流行期间,对Reddit上的大麻相关讨论进行了定性内容分析
Hannah Reygaerts1, Sidney Smith2, Lynette M Renner3
1Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
PloS one
|June 6, 2024
概括
在COVID-19期间,年轻人使用Reddit获取大麻信息. 讨论不断发展,但同行建议可能会传播错误信息,阻碍减少危害的努力.
科学领域:
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 沟通研究 沟通研究
背景情况:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间,像Reddit这样的社交媒体平台对信息交换至关重要.
- 年轻人使用假名平台进行社交互动和信息搜索.
- r/saplings subreddit是一个专注于大麻使用的社区,经常由年轻人来访.
研究的目的:
- 在r/saplings subreddit中搜索和提供信息的类型进行分类.
- 分析COVID-19流行病不同阶段关于大麻使用的用户对话的变化.
- 评估Reddit在青少年关于大麻的社交活动中的作用.
主要方法:
- 对213个随机选择的帖子和2546条来自r/树苗的评论进行了定性内容分析.
- 在四个不同的时间段中提取数据:大流行前,大流行初期,夏季和秋季.
- 对帖子和评论量进行了定量评估,并对内容进行了主题分析.
主要成果:
- 在整个研究期间,观察到子reddit活动 (帖子和评论) 的显著增加.
- 出现了三个主要主题:大麻获取,使用方法和相关后果.
- 内容优先级发生了转变,早期"获取地点"和"未来使用"占据了重要地位,而"后果"和"宽容"在以后获得了引力.
结论:
- 雷迪特是青年讨论大麻的重要平台,有助于社会化.
- 个人观点和经验占据了可验证信息的优势,这引发了人们对潜在的错误信息的担忧.
- 需要可访问,准确的信息和减少伤害的干预措施,以减轻与同行领导的在线咨询相关的风险.
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