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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Sentiments about Mental Health on Twitter-Before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Felix Beierle, Rüdiger Pryss, Akiko Aizawa

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Felix BeierleNational Institute of Informatics, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2702-9893
Rüdiger PryssInstitute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry (ICE-B), University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1522-785X
Akiko AizawaNational Institute of Informatics, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan.

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German Academic Exchange Service None
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel coronavirus had an impact not only on public health but also on the mental health of the population. Public sentiment on mental health and depression is often captured only in small, survey-based studies, while work based on Twitter data often only looks at the period during the pandemic and does not make comparisons with the pre-pandemic situation. We collected tweets that included the hashtags #MentalHealth and #Depression from before and during the pandemic (8.5 months each). We used LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) for topic modeling and LIWC, VADER, and NRC for sentiment analysis. We used three machine-learning classifiers to seek evidence regarding an automatically detectable change in tweets

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coronavirusCOVID-19machine learningpublic healthsentiment analysistopic modeling

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PMID37958038
PMCPMC10647444

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