Exploring the Changes of Suicide Probability During COVID-19 Among                     Chinese Weibo Users

Li, Sijia; Xue, Jia; Liu, Xiaoqian; Wu, Peijing; Liu, Tianli; Zhu, Meng; Zhao, Nan; Zhu, Tingshao

doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000782

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“…During the pandemic, people have been experiencing psychiatric disorders, such as fear ( 35 , 36 ), stress, anxiety ( 37 ), disappointment, irritability, depressive disorders, and even suicide ( 38 ). The COVID-19 pandemic also has a dynamic impact on suicide probability ( 39 ). This study indicated that we could take steps to reduce the spread of suicide reports during COVID-19.…”

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Appropriate Strategies for Reducing the Negative Impact of Online Reports of Suicide and Public Opinion From Social Media in China

Chu

Lin

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Suicide events may have a negative impact on all of society. The media plays a significant role in suicide prevention. Therefore, the aims of this study are (a) to understand the association between characteristics of suicide events and characteristics of who committed suicide, and event impact indexes (EIIs) of suicide reported on the internet; (b) to analyze violation of recommendations for reporting suicide by Weibo, and (c) to investigate the effect of online reports of suicide on public opinion. We carried out a content analysis of online reports of suicide. This study analyzed 113 suicide events, 300 news reports of suicide, and 2,654 Weibo comments about suicide collected from the WeiboReach between 2015 and 2020. We used a t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) to explore the potential factors associated with the EIIs of suicide events. The results found that (a) The suicide events reported on the internet during COVID-19 and those related to celebrities and students tend to have higher EIIs; (b) suicide reports on Weibo frequently violated WHO recommendations for suicide reporting in the media; and (c) public opinion of suicide reporting in the online media was mostly emotional and irrational, which is not beneficial for public mental health and suicide prevention. In conclusion, first, the situation of many people working from home or studying from home and spreading more time online during COVID-19 may lead to suicide events obtain more public attention. Online media could further improve public responsible reporting and daily media-content surveillance, especially taking particular care in those suicide events during COVID-19, and related to celebrities and students, which may have a higher event impact on the internet. Second, health managers should regular assessment of observance of the WHO recommendations for suicide reporting by online social media to prevent suicide. Third, health communication managers should use big data to identify, assess, and manage harmful information about suicide; and track anyone affected by suicide-related reports on social media to reduce the negative impact of public opinion to intervene suicide in the early stage of suicide.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Appropriate Strategies for Reducing the Negative Impact of Online Reports of Suicide and Public Opinion From Social Media in China

Chu

Lin

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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“…In previous research the measurement of emotions was mostly based on existing API [43,48], psychological scale [16], or only from the perspective of words and themes [5] rather than scenario-based analysis. However, emotions are comprehensive manifestations of not only words but also contexts.…”

Section: Emotional Disclosure On Social Media In Quarantinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In light of the virus transmission mechanism and the unprecedented sphere of influence, quarantine, a direct and effective social distancing strategy, is adopted by most governments around the world [73]. However, an emerging body of research warns of the exacerbated threat of vigorous confinement for the public's mental health under quarantine, like depression [12], suicide [48], and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [36]. Understanding mental health challenges during quarantine is warranted for further research to propose supporting technologies and improve intervention measures that could help the public obtain psychological balance.…”

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Understanding Emotional Disclosure via Diary-keeping in Quarantine on Social Media

Deng,

He,

2023

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium of Chinese CHI

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Quarantine is a widely-adopted measure during health crises caused by highly-contagious diseases like COVID-19, yet it poses critical challenges to public mental health. Given this context, emotional disclosure on social media in the form of keeping a diary emerges as a popular way for individuals to express emotions and record their mental health status. However, the exploration of emotional disclosure via diary-keeping on social media during quarantine is underexplored, understanding which could be beneficial to facilitate emotional connections and enlighten health intervention measures. Focusing on this particular form of self-disclosure, this work proposes a quantitative approach to figure out the prevalence and changing patterns of emotional disclosure during quarantine, and the possible factors contributing to the negative emotions. We collected 58, 796 posts with the "Quarantine Diary" keyword on Weibo, a popular social media website in China. Through text classification, we capture diverse emotion categories that characterize public emotion disclosure during quarantine, such as annoyed, anxious, boring, happy, hopeful and appreciative. Based on temporal analysis, we uncover the changing patterns of emotional disclosure from long-term perspectives and period-based perspectives (e.g., the gradual decline of all negative emotions and the upsurge of the annoyed emotion near the end of quarantine). Leveraging topic modeling, we also encapsulate the possible influencing factors of negative emotions, such as freedom restriction and solitude, and uncertainty of infection and supply. We reflect on how our findings could deepen the understanding of mental health on social media and further provide practical and design implications to mitigate mental health issues during quarantine. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.

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“…Since the outbreak of COVID-19, people's negative emotions have increased, and their life satisfaction has decreased [17]. COVID-19 also has a dynamic effect on suicide probability [18]. There are many research methods for determining the public's psychological state on Weibo, such as machine learning [19], qualitative content analysis [20], and so on.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Shanghai Epidemic, China, 2022 on Public Psychology: A Sentiment Analysis of Microblog Users by Data Mining

Wang

Qin

2022

Sustainability

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The Shanghai epidemic (COVID-19) is another large-scale epidemic in China’s central cities in the post-epidemic era from the end of March 2022. It is of great significance to study the public’s attitude towards the Shanghai epidemic to support healthy psychology and a positive attitude. This study used crawler technology to obtain the Weibo data related to the epidemic situation in Shanghai that was published by users. The crawled microblogs were preprocessed, and the BosonNLP sentiment dictionary for attitude classification was selected. The Chinese vocabulary ontology for 21 emotion classifications was also used. The results showed that the general attitude of the public in Shanghai was positive. This fluctuated greatly in the initial stage and gradually increased in the later stage. Through text mining, it is clear that goods and materials, nucleic acid virus testing, and other aspects of the epidemic in Shanghai are concerning for the public. The public attitude in areas that are close to the epidemic center is relatively more negative. The study can provide references for policymakers to fight COVID-19 by improving public attitude and solving urgent matters.

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Exploring the Changes of Suicide Probability During COVID-19 Among Chinese Weibo Users

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Appropriate Strategies for Reducing the Negative Impact of Online Reports of Suicide and Public Opinion From Social Media in China

Appropriate Strategies for Reducing the Negative Impact of Online Reports of Suicide and Public Opinion From Social Media in China

Understanding Emotional Disclosure via Diary-keeping in Quarantine on Social Media

The Impact of Shanghai Epidemic, China, 2022 on Public Psychology: A Sentiment Analysis of Microblog Users by Data Mining

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