Tweets about War, Medicine and Humanity: Do You Hear the People Tweet in Ukraine?

摘要

The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022 (Levy and Leaning 2022). It caused a large number of deaths, destruction and displacement as well as social, political, and financial instability worldwide. Mental health illness is one of the major problems in wartime Ukraine, particularly for perinatal women (Sacchi 2022) and adolescents (Osokina et al. 2022). The PubMed search by the words of "Ukraine", "war" and "mental health" reveals 60 papers with these keywords as of December 12, 2022. However, the publication of papers on this serious theme is very limited in Japan (Goto et al. 2023), probably because Japanese psychiatrists, psychologists or researchers in this field have been unable to visit Ukraine under uncontrollable war.