论文标题
COVID-19以及REDDIT上的心理健康/物质使用障碍：一项纵向研究
COVID-19 and Mental Health/Substance Use Disorders on Reddit: A Longitudinal Study
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论文摘要
Covid-19-Pandemic对患有精神健康问题和药物使用问题的人们产生了不利和不成比例的影响。在大流行期间的社会隔离以及与心理健康和药物使用障碍相关的社会污名，使人们不愿分享自己的斗争并寻求帮助，这加剧了这一点。由于他们提供的匿名和隐私，社交媒体成为人们分享他们日常挣扎的经验的便捷媒介。 Reddit是一个公认的社交媒体平台，提供了称为Subreddits的重点和结构化的论坛，用户订阅并与他人讨论他们的经验。社交媒体发布有关心理健康/药物使用的局部关系与有关冠状病毒的帖子之间的时间评估对于更好地了解有关大流行及其不断发展的影响的公众情绪至关重要，尤其是与弱势群体有关的影响。在这项研究中，我们对r/抑郁症，r/焦虑，r/suicideWatch和r/coronavirus之间的发帖进行了纵向局部分析，以及在2020年1月2020年1月2020年1月的possiration和Corron之间，r/opiateSrevoveres，r/opiatesRecoveres，r/opiatesRecoveres，r/opiatesRecovery，r/opiatesRecovery，r/opiateSredection。 2020年9月。此外，关于物质使用障碍和冠状病毒的帖子之间的主题相关性波动，显示了2020年8月的最高相关性。通过监视从Reddit，流行病学家和精神卫生专业人员等平台的这些趋势来吸引社区面临的针对目标干预措施所面临的挑战。
COVID-19 pandemic has adversely and disproportionately impacted people suffering from mental health issues and substance use problems. This has been exacerbated by social isolation during the pandemic and the social stigma associated with mental health and substance use disorders, making people reluctant to share their struggles and seek help. Due to the anonymity and privacy they provide, social media emerged as a convenient medium for people to share their experiences about their day to day struggles. Reddit is a well-recognized social media platform that provides focused and structured forums called subreddits, that users subscribe to and discuss their experiences with others. Temporal assessment of the topical correlation between social media postings about mental health/substance use and postings about Coronavirus is crucial to better understand public sentiment on the pandemic and its evolving impact, especially related to vulnerable populations. In this study, we conduct a longitudinal topical analysis of postings between subreddits r/depression, r/Anxiety, r/SuicideWatch, and r/Coronavirus, and postings between subreddits r/opiates, r/OpiatesRecovery, r/addiction, and r/Coronavirus from January 2020 - October 2020. Our results show a high topical correlation between postings in r/depression and r/Coronavirus in September 2020. Further, the topical correlation between postings on substance use disorders and Coronavirus fluctuates, showing the highest correlation in August 2020. By monitoring these trends from platforms such as Reddit, epidemiologists, and mental health professionals can gain insights into the challenges faced by communities for targeted interventions.
