@inproceedings{biester-etal-2020-quantifying,
title = "Quantifying the Effects of {COVID}-19 on Mental Health Support Forums",
author = "Biester, Laura and
Matton, Katie and
Rajendran, Janarthanan and
Provost, Emily Mower and
Mihalcea, Rada",
editor = "Verspoor, Karin and
Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel and
Conway, Michael and
de Bruijn, Berry and
Dredze, Mark and
Mihalcea, Rada and
Wallace, Byron",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on {NLP} for {COVID}-19 (Part 2) at {EMNLP} 2020",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.8",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.8",
abstract = "The COVID-19 pandemic, like many of the disease outbreaks that have preceded it, is likely to have a profound effect on mental health. Understanding its impact can inform strategies for mitigating negative consequences. In this work, we seek to better understand the effects of COVID-19 on mental health by examining discussions within mental health support communities on Reddit. First, we quantify the rate at which COVID-19 is discussed in each community, or subreddit, in order to understand levels of pandemic-related discussion. Next, we examine the volume of activity in order to determine whether the number of people discussing mental health has risen. Finally, we analyze how COVID-19 has influenced language use and topics of discussion within each subreddit.",
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%T Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums
%A Biester, Laura
%A Matton, Katie
%A Rajendran, Janarthanan
%A Provost, Emily Mower
%A Mihalcea, Rada
%Y Verspoor, Karin
%Y Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel
%Y Conway, Michael
%Y de Bruijn, Berry
%Y Dredze, Mark
%Y Mihalcea, Rada
%Y Wallace, Byron
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
%D 2020
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F biester-etal-2020-quantifying
%X The COVID-19 pandemic, like many of the disease outbreaks that have preceded it, is likely to have a profound effect on mental health. Understanding its impact can inform strategies for mitigating negative consequences. In this work, we seek to better understand the effects of COVID-19 on mental health by examining discussions within mental health support communities on Reddit. First, we quantify the rate at which COVID-19 is discussed in each community, or subreddit, in order to understand levels of pandemic-related discussion. Next, we examine the volume of activity in order to determine whether the number of people discussing mental health has risen. Finally, we analyze how COVID-19 has influenced language use and topics of discussion within each subreddit.
%R 10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.8
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.8
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[Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.8) (Biester et al., NLP-COVID19 2020)
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