Social media and its benefits to build mental health awareness in Indonesia.

Introduction: Social media has become one of the fastest-growing communication media in Indonesia. Its use for various purposes has been found to be very useful. Objectives: To know the usefulness of my social media contents in delivering mental health information. Methods: We gather information from the public using surveymonkeycom started on May 1st, 2017 until September 30th, 2017. We asked them to fill the survey form about their activity in social media and their opinion about my mental health awareness information. Results: 395 respondents conducted the survey. 94.9% (respondents) checked their social media accounts every day. Half of respondentsare18-29 years old range. 47.09% of respondents using social media every day to access health contents on the internet. Most of the respondents (47.8%) accessed my Facebook (5K friends and 12,887 followers) and 47.55% accessed my Twitter (35K followers). Our survey used self-assessment that used point (mentioned as a star from range 1 to 10, 1: least benefit, 10: very strong benefit). My Facebook account seemed to be the most popular social media that attracted people to get information about mental health, followed by my blog in Kompasiana Citizen Journalism and my Youtube channel (34K subscribers). Respondents founded my contents in social media to be useful with the points of 8.3 and add some knowledge to them with 8.5 points. Conclusions: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube channel were still to be themost socialmedia that respondents thought to be informative to spread the awareness of psychosomatic issues and mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]