Three dimensions of COVID-19 risk perceptions and their socioeconomic correlates in the United States: A social media analysis.

ABSTRACT: Social media analysis provides an alternate approach to monitoring and understanding risk perceptions regarding COVID-19 over time. Our current understandings of risk perceptions regarding COVID-19 do not disentangle the three dimensions of risk perceptions (perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, and negative emotion) as the pandemic has evolved. Data are also limited regarding the impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) on COVID-19-related risk perceptions over time. To address these knowledge gaps, we extracted tweets regarding COVID-19-related risk perceptions and developed indicators for the three dimensions of risk perceptions based on over 502 million geotagged tweets posted by over 4.9 million Twitter users from January 2020 to December 2021 in the United States. We ex

SUBMITTER: Qiao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9350290 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature