Online information exchange and anxiety spread in the early stage of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in South Korea: Structural topic model and network analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2020, Pages

  Jo, Wonkwang ^a   Lee, Jaeho ^b   Park, Junli ^b   Kim, Yeol ^b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coronavirus; Health information exchange; Online; Pandemic; Topic modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DETECTION ALGORITHM; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MISINFORMATION; PATIENT WORRY; PUBLIC OPINION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH KOREA; ANXIETY; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PANDEMIC; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PUBLIC OPINION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 85085905345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/19455     Document Type: Article

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