Depression in South Korean Adolescents Captured by Text and Opinion Mining of Social Big Data.

ABSTRACT: Depression in adolescence is recognized as an important social and public health issue that interferes with continued physical growth and increases the likelihood of other mental disorders. The goal of this study was to examine online documents posted by South Korean adolescents for 3 years through the text and opinion mining of collectable documents in order to capture their depression. The sample for this study was online text-based individual documents that contained depression-related words among adolescents, and these were collected from 215 social media websites in South Korea from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014. A sentiment lexicon was developed for adolescent depressive symptoms, and such sentiments were analyzed through opinion mining. The depressive symptoms in the present st

SUBMITTER: Song J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10487740 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature