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#Selfcare: Perspectives From Instagram, Luke Nguyen, Colin Mullis, Bailey Rydzewski, Julie Williams Merten Phd
#Selfcare: Perspectives From Instagram, Luke Nguyen, Colin Mullis, Bailey Rydzewski, Julie Williams Merten Phd
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Background: While widely-used by clinicians, self-care has recently emerged as a trending term in mainstream and social media. Informal health and support communities have formed on social media sites such as Instagram, which hosts more than one billion monthly users and ranks as the second most popular social networking application in the United States.
Purpose: This study investigated how the term self-care is portrayed on Instagram. In particular, the researchers examined how self-care was depicted across the six dimensions of wellness and four established self-care themes including illness prevention, management of chronic illness, promotion of optimal health, and early detection …