@inproceedings{ireland-etal-2022-tracking,
title = "Tracking Mental Health Risks and Coping Strategies in Healthcare Workers{'} Online Conversations Across the {COVID}-19 Pandemic",
author = "Ireland, Molly and
Adams, Kaitlin and
Farrell, Sean",
editor = "Zirikly, Ayah and
Atzil-Slonim, Dana and
Liakata, Maria and
Bedrick, Steven and
Desmet, Bart and
Ireland, Molly and
Lee, Andrew and
MacAvaney, Sean and
Purver, Matthew and
Resnik, Rebecca and
Yates, Andrew",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.clpsych-1.7",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.clpsych-1.7",
pages = "76--88",
abstract = "The mental health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic are magnified for medical professionals, such as doctors and nurses. To track conversational markers of psychological distress and coping strategies, we analyzed 67.25 million words written by self-identified healthcare workers (N = 5,409; 60.5{\%} nurses, 40.5{\%} physicians) on Reddit beginning in June 2019. Dictionary-based measures revealed increasing emotionality (including more positive and negative emotion and more swearing), social withdrawal (less affiliation and empathy, more {``}they{''} pronouns), and self-distancing (fewer {``}I{''} pronouns) over time. Several effects were strongest for conversations that were least health-focused and self-relevant, suggesting that long-term changes in social and emotional behavior are general and not limited to personal or work-related experiences. Understanding protective and risky coping strategies used by healthcare workers during the pandemic is fundamental for maintaining mental health among front-line workers during periods of chronic stress, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.",
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%T Tracking Mental Health Risks and Coping Strategies in Healthcare Workers’ Online Conversations Across the COVID-19 Pandemic
%A Ireland, Molly
%A Adams, Kaitlin
%A Farrell, Sean
%Y Zirikly, Ayah
%Y Atzil-Slonim, Dana
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Bedrick, Steven
%Y Desmet, Bart
%Y Ireland, Molly
%Y Lee, Andrew
%Y MacAvaney, Sean
%Y Purver, Matthew
%Y Resnik, Rebecca
%Y Yates, Andrew
%S Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, USA
%F ireland-etal-2022-tracking
%X The mental health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic are magnified for medical professionals, such as doctors and nurses. To track conversational markers of psychological distress and coping strategies, we analyzed 67.25 million words written by self-identified healthcare workers (N = 5,409; 60.5% nurses, 40.5% physicians) on Reddit beginning in June 2019. Dictionary-based measures revealed increasing emotionality (including more positive and negative emotion and more swearing), social withdrawal (less affiliation and empathy, more “they” pronouns), and self-distancing (fewer “I” pronouns) over time. Several effects were strongest for conversations that were least health-focused and self-relevant, suggesting that long-term changes in social and emotional behavior are general and not limited to personal or work-related experiences. Understanding protective and risky coping strategies used by healthcare workers during the pandemic is fundamental for maintaining mental health among front-line workers during periods of chronic stress, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.clpsych-1.7
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.clpsych-1.7
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.clpsych-1.7
%P 76-88
Markdown (Informal)
[Tracking Mental Health Risks and Coping Strategies in Healthcare Workers’ Online Conversations Across the COVID-19 Pandemic](https://aclanthology.org/2022.clpsych-1.7) (Ireland et al., CLPsych 2022)
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