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"Every little thing makes me mad" : Self-medicalization of stress and the patterns of taking pharmaceuticals in a digital society. / Dudina, Victoria I.; Ruppel, Anastasia F.
In: Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniya: Ekonomicheskie i Sotsial'nye Peremeny, No. 2, 04.05.2020, p. 312-330.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - "Every little thing makes me mad"
T2 - Self-medicalization of stress and the patterns of taking pharmaceuticals in a digital society
AU - Dudina, Victoria I.
AU - Ruppel, Anastasia F.
PY - 2020/5/4
Y1 - 2020/5/4
N2 - Patterns of coping with stress and its consequences in the modern society increasingly rely on pharmaceutical drugs. In self-medicalization, implying self-diagnosis of symptoms qualified as a disease which needs to be treated medically, a big role is played by online resources where users can discuss the specifics of various medicines. The purpose of the study is to reveal the features of stress self-medicalization by studying the comments of the users discussing pharmacological treatment of stress. The sample included 13 Internet resources (a total of 762 comments) devoted to the use of medications to handle stress. As a result of inductive and deductive coding of user comments three patterns of medication use were singled out: (1) self-prescribed medication, (2) use of medicines as an additional way to relieve stress, (3) use of prescription medicines. These patterns differ in the level of stress self-medicalization and help to understand the extent to which people affected by this problem are capable of solving this problem by themselves, using only online user comments, as well as to detect the situations where they need a professional medical advice.
AB - Patterns of coping with stress and its consequences in the modern society increasingly rely on pharmaceutical drugs. In self-medicalization, implying self-diagnosis of symptoms qualified as a disease which needs to be treated medically, a big role is played by online resources where users can discuss the specifics of various medicines. The purpose of the study is to reveal the features of stress self-medicalization by studying the comments of the users discussing pharmacological treatment of stress. The sample included 13 Internet resources (a total of 762 comments) devoted to the use of medications to handle stress. As a result of inductive and deductive coding of user comments three patterns of medication use were singled out: (1) self-prescribed medication, (2) use of medicines as an additional way to relieve stress, (3) use of prescription medicines. These patterns differ in the level of stress self-medicalization and help to understand the extent to which people affected by this problem are capable of solving this problem by themselves, using only online user comments, as well as to detect the situations where they need a professional medical advice.
KW - Internet
KW - Medicalization
KW - Pharmaceuticals
KW - Self-medicalization
KW - Social media
KW - Sociology of health
KW - Stress
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085005647&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.14515/monitoring.2020.2.742
DO - 10.14515/monitoring.2020.2.742
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85085005647
SP - 312
EP - 330
JO - МОНИТОРИНГ ОБЩЕСТВЕННОГО МНЕНИЯ: ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ И СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ ПЕРЕМЕНЫ
JF - МОНИТОРИНГ ОБЩЕСТВЕННОГО МНЕНИЯ: ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ И СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ ПЕРЕМЕНЫ
SN - 2219-5467
IS - 2
ER -
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