{"id":5449,"date":"2020-03-25T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:22:41","slug":"the-impact-of-covid-19-epidemic-declaration-on-psychological-consequences-a-study-on-active-weibo-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/25\/the-impact-of-covid-19-epidemic-declaration-on-psychological-consequences-a-study-on-active-weibo-users\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic Declaration on Psychological Consequences: A Study on Active Weibo Users."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li et al review posts from 17,865 active users of Weibo, a Chinese social-media platform, and find an increase in negative emotions like anxiety, depression and indignation and sensitivity to social risks; as well as a decrease in positive emotions and life satisfaction after declaration of COVID-19 as an epidemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using social media data may provide timely understanding of public\u2019s mental health during an epidemic for policy makers and clinical practitioners to develop campaigns and interventions accordingly.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li et al. (March 19, 2020). The Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic Declaration on Psychological Consequences: A Study on Active Weibo Users. Int J Environ Research Public Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3390\/ijerph17062032\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3390\/ijerph17062032<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li et al review posts from 17,865 active users of Weibo, a Chinese social-media platform, and find an increase in negative emotions like anxiety, depression and indignation and sensitivity to social risks; as well as a decrease in positive emotions and life satisfaction after declaration of COVID-19 as an epidemic.\u00a0 Using social media data may&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/25\/the-impact-of-covid-19-epidemic-declaration-on-psychological-consequences-a-study-on-active-weibo-users\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5450,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}