Investigating Social Media to Evaluate Emergency Medicine Physicians' Emotional Well-being During COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Emergency medicine (EM) physicians experience tremendous emotional health strain, which has been exacerbated during COVID-19, and many have taken to social media to express themselves.

Objective

To analyze social media content from academic EM physicians and resident physicians to investigate changes in content and language as indicators of their emotional well-being.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used machine learning and natural language processing of Twitter posts from self-described academic EM physicians and resident physicians between March 2018 and March 2022. Participants included academic EM physicians and resident physicians with publicly accessible posts (at least 300 total words across the posts) from the US counti

SUBMITTER: Agarwal AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10173019 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature