Published on in Vol 24, No 1 (2022): January

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/32731, first published .
Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to Assess the Influence of News Affect on Online Mental Health-Related Search Behavior Across the United States: Integrated Sentiment Analysis and the Circumplex Model of Affect

Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to Assess the Influence of News Affect on Online Mental Health-Related Search Behavior Across the United States: Integrated Sentiment Analysis and the Circumplex Model of Affect

Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to Assess the Influence of News Affect on Online Mental Health-Related Search Behavior Across the United States: Integrated Sentiment Analysis and the Circumplex Model of Affect

Damien Lekkas   1, 2 , MS ;   Joseph A Gyorda   1 ;   George D Price   1, 2 , BS ;   Zoe Wortzman   1 ;   Nicholas C Jacobson   1, 2, 3, 4 , PhD

1 Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States

2 Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

3 Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States

4 Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Damien Lekkas, MS
  • Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
  • Geisel School of Medicine
  • Dartmouth College
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