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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

Nyoman Trinugiata Murdaningrat


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Introduction
Psychosocial Effects of the
COVID-19 Pandemic: Large-
scale Quasi-Experimental
Study on Social Media
Author: Koustuv Saha
Year: 2020
Published by: J Med Internet Res 2020 | vol.
22 | iss. 11 | e22600 | p. 1
Type Of Study
• Quasi Experimental

Why?
• Minimizes for geo-temporal cofounds/randomize by using
Twitter data sets from similar regions and similar times of
the year in a treatment (2020) and a control (2019) year.
Does social media language reflects the major
psychosocial concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic?

How the psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have


varied over time?

How to quantitatively assess the psychosocial effects of the COVID-19


pandemic using social media data?
Sampling English language of a twitter post

US Population (Geolocation)

Between March 24, 2020 and May 24,


2020
Clinical Diagnostic and statistical
manual of mental disorders,
Validity 5th edition criteria of mental
health symptoms

Feedback from clinical


experts
Treatment • Twitter posts between March 24, 2020 and May 24, 2020
Data
• During these 2 months, federal and state policies and
lawswere enacted to control or mitigate the spread of the
Intervention outbreak, including school and work closures; sta-at-
home orders, etc

• Originated from the same geographical location (the


Control Data United States) and a similar time period but from the
previous year (2019
Exposure Variable
• Psychosocial effects in terms of symptomatic mental health
expressions of anxiety, depression, stress, and suicidal
ideation, and expressions seeking emotional and
informational support in 2020.

Outcome Variable
• Self-disclosure on social media during pandemic 2021
Strengths Limitations

Twitter as a data source that provides us to Lack of transparancy related to the twitter streaming API
unobstrusive access to large-scale and
naturalistic data of people’s candid self-
disclosure and that it has been a valuable Can not define based on our data wether there were
increased or decreased twitter postings during our covid-19
source to study disaster and crisis response. study period

Filtering english-only twitter posts given both algorithmic


limitations of methodologies and lower prevalence of non-
english data (particularly in the us context)
REFERENSI
Saha, K., Torous, J., Caine, E.D. and De Choudhury, M., 2020. P
sychosocial Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Large-scale Quasi-
Experimental Study on Social Media. Journal of medical Internet
research, 22(11), p.e22600. Di akses pada 25 Mei 2021.

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