Public Priorities and Concerns Regarding COVID-19 in an Online Discussion Forum: Longitudinal Topic Modeling
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By providing complementary evidence to observations by Mackey et al and Stokes et al on expressed mental health concerns during the crisis, our study further underscores their findings using a comparable control data set, reinforcing and providing empirical credibility to the impression that the COVID-19 pandemic has indeed caused or contributed directly to the mental health concerns that we描述.
“By providing complementary evidence to observations by Mackey et al [106] and Stokes et al [107] on expressed (mental health) concerns during the crisis, our study further underscores their findings using a comparable (control) data set, reinforcing and providing empirical credibility to the impression that the COVID-19 pandemic has indeed caused or contributed directly to the mental health concer”
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- Authors
- Stokes, D. C., Andy, A., Guntuku, S. C., Ungar, L. H., & Merchant, R. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania Health System (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stokes, Daniel C.
- Venue
- Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2020-05-12
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2244-2247
- ISSN
- 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-1497
- PMC
- PMC7217615
- OpenAlex
- W3024303626
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 18.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, public concern, Reddit, online forums, public health measures, pandemic severity, impact on daily life, personal finance, travel restrictions, hand washing, topic modeling, social media discourse, mental health, misinformation, vaccine hesitancy
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Civil Defense, Humans, Pneumonia, Viral, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics, Social Media
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