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ArticleHealth informatics journal

COVID-19: Detecting depression signals during stay-at-home period.

Jean Marie Tshimula, Belkacem Chikhaoui, Shengrui Wang

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Jean Marie TshimulaProspectus Lab, 7321Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7595-6662
Belkacem ChikhaouiLICEF Research Center, 10078Université TELUQ, QC, Canada.
Shengrui WangProspectus Lab, Department of Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.

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Abstract

The new coronavirus outbreak has been officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. To grapple with the rapid spread of this ongoing pandemic, most countries have banned indoor and outdoor gatherings and ordered their residents to stay home. Given the developing situation with coronavirus, mental health is an important challenge in our society today. In this paper, we discuss the investigation of social media postings to detect signals relevant to depression. To this end, we utilize topic modeling features and a collection of psycholinguistic and mental-well-being attributes to develop statistical models to characterize and facilitate representation of the more subtle aspects of depression. Furthermore, we predict whether signals relevant to depression are likely to grow significantly as time moves forward. Our best classifier yields F-1 scores as high as 0.8 and surpasses the utilized baseline by a considerable margin, 0.173. In closing, we propose several future research avenues.

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COVID-19DepressionHumansMental HealthPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Coronavirusdepressionoverlapping behaviorsimilaritystay home

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PMID35450479
PMCPMC9035733

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