Korean adolescents' coping strategies on self-harm, ADHD, insomnia during COVID-19: text mining of social media big data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Since the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), public safety measures, including social distancing and school closures, have been implemented, precipitating psychological difficulties and heightened online activities for adolescents. However, studies examining the impact of the pandemic on adolescent mental health and their coping strategies in Asian countries are limited. Further, most studies have used survey measures to capture mental health challenges so far. Accordingly, this study aimed to examine the psychological challenges South Korean adolescents experienced and their coping strategies during the pandemic using the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text mining (TM) technique on adolescents' social media texts/posts.

Methods

The data were gathered f

SUBMITTER: Do R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10686066 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature