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How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience
BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer is an extremely malignant disease that poses a serious threat to the mental health of patients. Many cancer patients now use social media for online social support. However, the impact of social media on mental health is currently inconsistent in the academic community....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10333754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37441643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1166776 |
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author | Wang, Yi Bao, Sheng Chen, Yubing |
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description | BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer is an extremely malignant disease that poses a serious threat to the mental health of patients. Many cancer patients now use social media for online social support. However, the impact of social media on mental health is currently inconsistent in the academic community. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the mediating effects of online social support and psychological resilience in the relationship between social media use and mental health of pancreatic cancer patients. METHODS: Four hundred and twenty-five valid questionnaires were collected through convenience sampling. All data were processed using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0. We examine the influence relationships among latent variables by constructing a structural equation model. Then SPSS Process Macro was used to test the chain mediating effect of the model. RESULTS: The results showed that (1) anxiety situations occurred in 22.2% of participants (N = 94), while the incidence of depression was 20.2% (N = 86). (2) Social media use positively influenced online social support (β = 0.990, p < 0.001), psychological resilience (β = 0.504, p < 0.001), and mental health (β = 0.330, p < 0.001); online social support positively influenced psychological resilience (β = 0.535, p < 0.001) and mental health (β = 0.354, p < 0.001); psychological resilience significantly and positively influenced mental health (β = 0.243, p < 0.001). (3) The chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience was significant at 0.253 with a confidence interval of [0.178, 0.340]. CONCLUSION: Pancreatic cancer patients in China are exposed to a high burden of anxiety and depression, which requires urgent attention. Meanwhile, online social support and psychological resilience played a chain mediating role between social media use and mental health (anxiety and depression), and our results provide new insights and ways to support the mental health improvement of pancreatic cancer patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-103337542023-07-12 How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience Wang, Yi Bao, Sheng Chen, Yubing Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer is an extremely malignant disease that poses a serious threat to the mental health of patients. Many cancer patients now use social media for online social support. However, the impact of social media on mental health is currently inconsistent in the academic community. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the mediating effects of online social support and psychological resilience in the relationship between social media use and mental health of pancreatic cancer patients. METHODS: Four hundred and twenty-five valid questionnaires were collected through convenience sampling. All data were processed using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0. We examine the influence relationships among latent variables by constructing a structural equation model. Then SPSS Process Macro was used to test the chain mediating effect of the model. RESULTS: The results showed that (1) anxiety situations occurred in 22.2% of participants (N = 94), while the incidence of depression was 20.2% (N = 86). (2) Social media use positively influenced online social support (β = 0.990, p < 0.001), psychological resilience (β = 0.504, p < 0.001), and mental health (β = 0.330, p < 0.001); online social support positively influenced psychological resilience (β = 0.535, p < 0.001) and mental health (β = 0.354, p < 0.001); psychological resilience significantly and positively influenced mental health (β = 0.243, p < 0.001). (3) The chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience was significant at 0.253 with a confidence interval of [0.178, 0.340]. CONCLUSION: Pancreatic cancer patients in China are exposed to a high burden of anxiety and depression, which requires urgent attention. Meanwhile, online social support and psychological resilience played a chain mediating role between social media use and mental health (anxiety and depression), and our results provide new insights and ways to support the mental health improvement of pancreatic cancer patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10333754/ /pubmed/37441643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1166776 Text en Copyright © 2023 Wang, Bao and Chen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Wang, Yi Bao, Sheng Chen, Yubing How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience |
title | How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience |
title_full | How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience |
title_fullStr | How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience |
title_full_unstemmed | How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience |
title_short | How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience |
title_sort | how does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10333754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37441643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1166776 |
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