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ArticleIEEE transactions on computational social systems2021

Detecting Community Depression Dynamics Due to COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia.

Jianlong Zhou, Hamad Zogan, Shuiqiao Yang, Shoaib Jameel, Guandong Xu, Fang Chen

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Article in IEEE transactions on computational social systems, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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Jianlong ZhouData Science InstituteUniversity of Technology Sydney Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6034-644X
Hamad ZoganAdvanced Analytics InstituteUniversity of Technology Sydney Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia.
Shuiqiao YangData Science InstituteUniversity of Technology Sydney Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia.
Shoaib JameelSchool of Computer Science and Electronic EngineeringUniversity of Essex Colchester CO4 3SQ U.K.
Guandong XuAdvanced Analytics InstituteUniversity of Technology Sydney Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4493-6663
Fang ChenData Science InstituteUniversity of Technology Sydney Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4971-8729

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented impact across the globe. We have also witnessed millions of people with increased mental health issues, such as depression, stress, worry, fear, disgust, sadness, and anxiety, which have become one of the major public health concerns during this severe health crisis. Depression can cause serious emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems with significant consequences, both personal and social costs included. This article studies community depression dynamics due to the COVID-19 pandemic through user-generated content on Twitter. A new approach based on multimodal features from tweets and term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) is proposed to build depression classification models. Multimodal features capture depression cues from emotion, topic, and domain-specific perspectives. We study the problem using recently scraped tweets from Twitter users emanating from the state of New South Wales in Australia. Our novel classification model is capable of extracting depression polarities that may be affected by COVID-19 and related events during the COVID-19 period. The results found that people became more depressed after the outbreak of COVID-19. The measures implemented by the government, such as the state lockdown, also increased depression levels.

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AustraliaCoronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19)depressionmultimodal featuresTwitter

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PMID37982038
PMCPMC8545002

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