Perceived barriers to psychiatric help-seeking in South Korea by age groups: text mining analyses of social media big data.

Background: The psychiatric treatment gap is substantial in Korea, implying barriers in seeking help.

Objectives: This study aims to explore barriers of seeing psychiatrists, expressed on the internet by age groups.

Methods: A corpus of data was garnered extensively from internet communities, blogs and social network services from 1 January 2016 to 31 July 2019.