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Area of Science:

  • Computational social science
  • Mental health informatics
  • Public health surveillance

Background:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic introduced significant lifestyle changes, potentially leading to psychosocial stressors and mental health issues.
  • Identifying pandemic-specific stressors and their trends is crucial for effective mental health support.
  • Monitoring these stressors requires innovative approaches to analyze large-scale public discourse.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To employ natural language processing (NLP) on social media data for identifying psychosocial stressors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • To analyze the prevalence trends of these stressors across different pandemic phases.
  • To compare topic modeling and lexicon-based approaches for stressor identification.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized 9266 Reddit posts from the r/COVID19_support subreddit (Feb 2020 - Jul 2021).
  • Applied Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling to identify key themes.
  • Developed lexicons for topic identification and compared LDA results with lexicon-based findings.

Main Results:

  • LDA identified six main topics: fear of coronavirus, social relationship issues, mental health symptoms, family problems, educational/occupational challenges, and pandemic uncertainty.
  • A decline in "fear of coronavirus" posts was observed post-vaccine rollout.
  • Uncertainty discussions remained prevalent, with a notable increase during the Delta variant surge, while fear of the virus showed no significant change.

Conclusions:

  • A dashboard visualizing COVID-19 stressors on Reddit was developed.
  • The study provides insights into the evolving prevalence of pandemic-related psychosocial stressors.
  • NLP techniques offer a valuable tool for analyzing event-specific stressors in public discourse.