Tracking Mental Health Risks and Coping Strategies in Healthcare Workers’ Online Conversations Across the COVID-19 Pandemic

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.18653/v1/2022.clpsych-1.7

Molly Ireland, K. Adams, Seán Farrell

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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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追踪COVID-19大流行期间医护人员在线对话中的心理健康风险和应对策略

COVID-19大流行对医生和护士等医疗专业人员的心理健康风险被放大。为了追踪心理困扰的会话标记和应对策略，我们分析了自认为医护人员的6725万字(N = 5409;60.5%的护士，40.5%的医生)，从2019年6月开始。基于词典的测量显示，随着时间的推移，情绪(包括更多的积极和消极情绪，更多的咒骂)、社交退缩(更少的归属感和同理心，更多的“他们”代词)和自我疏远(更少的“我”代词)都在增加。对于那些最不关注健康和自我相关的谈话，有几个影响是最强的，这表明社会和情感行为的长期变化是普遍的，并不局限于个人或与工作相关的经历。了解卫生保健工作者在大流行期间使用的保护性和风险应对策略，对于在COVID-19大流行等慢性压力期间保持一线工作者的心理健康至关重要。

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