Exploring COVID-19 Related Stressors Using Topic Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00476v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:22:43 GMT
• Title: Exploring COVID-19 Related Stressors Using Topic Modeling
• Authors: Yue Tong Leung, Farzad Khalvati
• Abstract summary: This study aims to apply natural language processing (NLP) on social media data to identify psychosocial stressors during COVID-19 pandemic. We obtained dataset of 9266 Reddit posts from subreddit rCOVID19_support, from 14th Feb. 2020 to 19th July 2021. Our result presented a dashboard to visualize the trend of prevalence of topics about covid-19 related stressors being discussed on social media platform.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected lives of people from different countries for almost two years. The changes on lifestyles due to the pandemic may cause psychosocial stressors for individuals, and have a potential to lead to mental health problems. To provide high quality mental health supports, healthcare organization need to identify the COVID-19 specific stressors, and notice the trends of prevalence of those stressors. This study aims to apply natural language processing (NLP) on social media data to identify the psychosocial stressors during COVID-19 pandemic, and to analyze the trend on prevalence of stressors at different stages of the pandemic. We obtained dataset of 9266 Reddit posts from subreddit \rCOVID19_support, from 14th Feb ,2020 to 19th July 2021. We used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model and lexicon methods to identify the topics that were mentioned on the subreddit. Our result presented a dashboard to visualize the trend of prevalence of topics about covid-19 related stressors being discussed on social media platform. The result could provide insights about the prevalence of pandemic related stressors during different stages of COVID-19. The NLP techniques leveraged in this study could also be applied to analyze event specific stressors in the future.

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