The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality

J Torous, S Bucci, IH Bell, LV Kessing… - World …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the COVID‐19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental
health technologies–such as smartphone apps, virtual reality, chatbots, and social media …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review

A John, E Eyles, RT Webb, C Okolie… - …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused considerable morbidity, mortality and
disruption to people's lives around the world. There are concerns that rates of suicide and …

Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika

L Laestadius, A Bishop, M Gonzalez… - New Media & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Social chatbot (SC) applications offering social companionship and basic therapy tools have
grown in popularity for emotional, social, and psychological support. While use appears to …

Artificial intelligence in psychiatry research, diagnosis, and therapy

J Sun, QX Dong, SW Wang, YB Zheng, XX Liu… - Asian Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Psychiatric disorders are now responsible for the largest proportion of the global burden of
disease, and even more challenges have been seen during the COVID-19 pandemic …

How loneliness is talked about in social media during COVID-19 pandemic: Text mining of 4,492 Twitter feeds

JX Koh, TM Liew - Journal of psychiatric research, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Loneliness is a public health problem that is expected to rise during the COVID-
19 pandemic, given the widespread policy of quarantine. The literature is unclear whether …

Harnessing big data analytics for healthcare: A comprehensive review of frameworks, implications, applications, and impacts

A Ahmed, R Xi, M Hou, SA Shah, S Hameed - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Big Data Analytics (BDA) has garnered significant attention in both academia and industries,
particularly in sectors such as healthcare, owing to the exponential growth of data and …

[HTML][HTML] Social media mining under the COVID-19 context: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

X Huang, S Wang, M Zhang, T Hu, A Hohl… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Social media platforms allow users worldwide to create and share information, forging vast
sensing networks that allow information on certain topics to be collected, stored, mined, and …

Socially-supportive norms and mutual aid of people who use opioids: An analysis of Reddit during the initial COVID-19 pandemic

AM Bunting, D Frank, J Arshonsky, MA Bragg… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Big events (ie, unique historical disruptions) like the COVID-19 epidemic and its
associated period of social distancing can transform social structures, social interactions …

A systematic review of the use of topic models for short text social media analysis

CDP Laureate, W Buntine, H Linger - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
Recently, research on short text topic models has addressed the challenges of social media
datasets. These models are typically evaluated using automated measures. However, recent …

DEPTWEET: A typology for social media texts to detect depression severities

M Kabir, T Ahmed, MB Hasan, MTR Laskar… - Computers in Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mental health research through data-driven methods has been hindered by a lack of
standard typology and scarcity of adequate data. In this study, we leverage the clinical …