Introduction: Journaling and Mental Health during COVID-19: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project.

ABSTRACT: In this article, we introduce the SSM-MH Special Issue "Journaling and Mental Health during COVID-19: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project," which presents findings from the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP). PJP is an online journaling platform and mixed-methods research study created in May 2020 to provide ordinary people around the world an opportunity to chronicle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in their lives-for themselves and for posterity. The essays in this collection demonstrate how journaling via an online platform can help illuminate experiences of mental wellbeing and distress, with important implications for both research and clinical practice. We begin by introducing the Pandemic Journaling Project and describing our procedures for generating the data subsets an

SUBMITTER: Wurtz HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9792128 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature