The Psychosocial Impacts of COVID-19 on a Sample of Australian Adults: Cross-sectional Survey and Sentiment Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous impacts on people's lives, including disruptions to their normal ways of behaving, working, and interacting with others. Understanding and documenting these experiences is important to inform the ongoing response to COVID-19 and disaster preparedness efforts.

Objective

The aim of this study was to examine the psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 on a sample of Australian adults.

Methods

The data analyzed were derived from a larger cross-sectional survey of Australian adults that was administered during the month of May 2020. Participants (N=3483) were asked in which ways COVID-19 had most greatly impacted them; the responses produced a text data set containing 1 COVID-19 impact story for each participant, totaling 86,642 w

SUBMITTER: Ryan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8274677 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature