[HTML][HTML] Global shocks, cascading disruptions, and (re-) connections: viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as concurrent natural experiments to understand land system …

M Piquer-Rodríguez, C Friis, RNN Andriatsitohaina… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted human well-being
and livelihoods, communities, and economies in myriad ways with consequences for social …

[HTML][HTML] Results and Methodological Implications of the Digital Epidemiology of Prescription Drug References Among Twitter Users: Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) …

MA Parker, D Valdez, VK Rao, KS Eddens… - Journal of Medical Internet …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Social media is an important information source for a growing subset of the
population and can likely be leveraged to provide insight into the evolving drug overdose …

The impact of the COVID-19 “Infodemic” on well-being: A cross-sectional study

I Elbarazi, B Saddik, M Grivna, F Aziz… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic created a crisis in the world of information and digital
literacy. The amount of misinformation surrounding COVID-19 that has circulated through …

[HTML][HTML] Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media: Online insights from an English/Spanish natural language processing (NLP) analysis of vaccine …

D Valdez, AD Soto-Vásquez, MS Montenegro - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Misinformation is known to affect norms, attitudes, and intentions to engage with
healthy behaviors. Evidence strongly supports that Spanish speakers may be particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Changes to Public Health Surveillance Methods Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

EC Clark, S Neumann, S Hopkins… - JMIR Public Health …, 2024 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: Public health surveillance plays a vital role in informing public health decision-
making. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 caused a widespread shift in …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing Reddit forums specific to abortion that yield diverse dialogues pertaining to medical information seeking and personal worldviews: data mining and …

D Valdez, L Mena-Meléndez, BL Crawford… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - jmir.org
Background Attitudes toward abortion have historically been characterized via dichotomized
labels, yet research suggests that these labels do not appropriately encapsulate beliefs on …

[HTML][HTML] Using natural language processing to explore “dry January” posts on twitter: longitudinal Infodemiology study

AM Russell, D Valdez, SC Chiang… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Dry January, a temporary alcohol abstinence campaign, encourages
individuals to reflect on their relationship with alcohol by temporarily abstaining from …

A computational linguistic approach to study border theory at scale

T Douglas, L Capra, M Musolesi - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Border Theory suggests individuals createborders to manage the transitions between work
and family (or, more generally, life) domains. The degree of separation or integration of …

[HTML][HTML] Internet use time and subjective well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak: serial mediation of problematic internet use and self-esteem

MP Lin, HY Tseng, YT Lee, WC Tang, LH Cheng… - BMC psychology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak is a threat to adolescents' mental
health and livelihoods, and lowers their subjective well-being (SWB). Expanding on …

Online Social Media Reactions to the Overturn of Roe v. Wade: Public Health Implications and Policy Insights

D Valdez, L Mena-Meléndez, BL Crawford… - Sexuality Research and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The Supreme Court of the United States'(SCOTUS) decision in Dobbs
v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned the Court's previous decision in Roe v …