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01-09-2020 | COVID-19 | Concise Research Report
Tracking Mental Health and Symptom Mentions on Twitter During COVID-19
Authors:
Sharath Chandra Guntuku, PhD, Garrick Sherman, PhD, Daniel C. Stokes, MS, Anish K. Agarwal, MD, MPH, MS, Emily Seltzer, MPH, Raina M. Merchant, MD, Lyle H. Ungar, PhD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 9/2020
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Excerpt
The magnitude of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to considerable economic hardships, stress, anxiety, and concerns about the future. Social media can provide a place for measuring a pulse of mental health in communities. Evaluating the changing use of language on social media can complement traditional survey-based approaches and provide new insights into the well-being of a country or region during a public health crisis. Social media could also enable early symptom discovery for diseases where the pathology is not completely known and is evolving.
1 We, therefore, created a dashboard (
https://bit.ly/penncovidmap) to monitor and analyze changes in language expressed on Twitter over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic within the USA with a specific focus on mental health and symptom mentions. …
