Let’s join the research of postpartum mothers’ sleep on Twitter!

All you have to do is to tweet with the hashtag (meaning #babymothersleepchat in Japanese) Chat!
Why don’t you join the research of postpartum mothers’ sleep on Twitter?

Date

Starts at 9:00pm on January 11th

Theme

What do you think about “postpartum sleep”? Please tweet whatever you want to say about it.
(e.g., What you think is missing from your “postpartum sleep”, what you think is necessary in order to improve your “postpartum sleep”, or what you expect to healthcare providers regarding “postpartum sleep”.)

How to participate

Answer the questionnaire from https://uranai.nosv.org/u.php/q/showasleep/
Tweet freely with the score of the questionnaire and hashtag.
You can tweet as many times as you want!
We also welcome Fav and Retweet or reply (with hashtag) by searching other tweets with the hashtag.

We will start Twitter chat with hash tag (meaning #babymothersleepchat in Japanese) Chat from 9:00pm on January 11th, 2020.
Twitter chat is an event where you can enjoy virtual communication and debate in Twitter.
It is said it started as an event to “chatting” in Twitter between postpartum mothers who can not go out a lot with an infant.
We analyze all tweets posted in this Twitter chat in Showa university hospital east hospital sleep medicine center to clarify what actual problems mothers have and what kind of help they need through textual analysis of individual tweet composed of 140 characters.

The sleep quality in postpartum period is closely associated with the emergence of postpartum depression. The shortest total sleep times in the world were reported in Japanese postpartum women and they also were reported the highest percentage of mothers who were poor sleepers. It is important to research the factors that influence the sleep quality which is the risk factor for the development of postpartum depression because of the association with suicide which may be a principal cause of death among postpartum women in Japan. However, it is unknown that what impact the maternal sleep quality significantly including bed-sharing which was founded to be modest impact on maternal sleep quality in a previous study.

Twitter is gaining attention as a tool for health research. Twitter analysis has already used for research of insomnia, circadian rhythm and child sleep in previous studies.
Moreover, for postpartum women, social networking sites as Twitter is not only useful to search information but for its convenience despite the lack of time, its anonymity for exchanging personal information and as a community to share the experience.

In this study, we examine the relationship between the quality of postpartum women’s sleep and postpartum depression through Twitter. We look forward to your participation in Twitter chat.

By: Hitomi Ida

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