A5006469445- Mental Health via Writing
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
Stony Brook University
2024
Abstract In the most comprehensive population surveys, mental health is only broadly captured through questionnaires asking about “mentally unhealthy days” or feelings of “sadness.” Further, estimates are predominantly consolidated to yearly at state level, which considerably coarser than best physical health. Through large-scale analysis social media, robust estimation feasible finer resolutions. this study, we created a pipeline that used ~1 billion Tweets from 2 million geo-located users...
Compared to physical health, population mental health measurement in the U.S. is very coarse-grained. Currently, largest surveys, such as those carried out by Centers for Disease Control or Gallup, only broadly captured through "mentally unhealthy days" "sadness", and limited relatively infrequent state metropolitan estimates. Through large scale analysis of social media data, robust estimation feasible at much higher resolutions, up weekly estimates counties. In present work, we validate a...