Natural Language Processing Reveals Vulnerable Mental Health Support Groups and Heightened Health Anxiety on Reddit During COVID-19: Observational Study.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting mental health, but it is not clear how people with different types of mental health problems were differentially impacted as the initial wave of cases hit.

Authors

  • Daniel M Low
    Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Laurie Rumker
    Center for Data Sciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Tanya Talkar
    Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  • John Torous
    Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Guillermo Cecchi
    Thomas J Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States.
  • Satrajit S Ghosh
    Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.