Open AccessThe Role of Social Media in the Advent of COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis Management, Mental Health Challenges and Implications
Author(s) -
Jaffar Abbas,
Dake Wang,
Zhaohui Su,
Arash Ziapour
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s284313
Subject(s) - mental health , pandemic , public health , global health , social media , psychological intervention , covid-19 , medicine , psycinfo , crisis management , environmental health , political science , economic growth , public relations , psychology , psychiatry , medline , disease , nursing , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , law , economics
This study focuses on how educating people through social media platforms can help reduce the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 to manage the global health crisis. The pandemic has posed a global mental health crisis, and correct information is indispensable to dispel uncertainty, fear, and mental stress to unify global communities in collective combat against COVID-19 disease worldwide. Mounting studies specified that manifestly endless coronavirus-related newsfeeds and death numbers considerably increased the risk of global mental health issues. Social media provided positive and negative data, and the COVID-19 has resulted in a worldwide infodemic. It has eroded public trust and impeded virus restraint, which outlived the coronavirus pandemic itself.