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The Impact of COVID-19 Infodemic on Depression and Sleep Disorders; Focusing On Uncertainty Reduction Strategies and Level of Interpretation Theory (Preprint)

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The article was published on 2021-08-02 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Construal level theory & Social media.

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COVID-19 INFODEMIC AND IMPACTS ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF BRAZILIAN ELDERLY PEOPLE: A MULTICENTRIC STUDY Objective: To describe the profile of exposure to information on COVID-19 and its impact on the mental health of Brazilian elderly individuals regarding screening for perceived stress and generalized anxiety disorder. (Preprint)

TL;DR: In this paper , a cross-sectional exploratory study of 3,307 elderly Brazilians was conducted to analyze the relationship between the COVID-19 infodemic and the repercussions on the mental health of elderly individuals.
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Assessing secondary school students’ digital health literacy, information searching behaviours, and satisfaction with online COVID-19 information in Northern Ghana

TL;DR: In this paper , a cross-sectional study of 1392 secondary school students in the Northern Region of Ghana was conducted to assess DHL, information searching behaviours, and the link between DHL and COVID-19 information.
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What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have crawled the entire Twittersphere and found a non-power-law follower distribution, a short effective diameter, and low reciprocity, which all mark a deviation from known characteristics of human social networks.
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Generalized anxiety disorder, depressive symptoms and sleep quality during COVID-19 outbreak in China: a web-based cross-sectional survey.

TL;DR: This study identified a major mental health burden of the public during the COVID-19 outbreak as young people, people spending too much time thinking about the outbreak, and healthcare workers were at high risk of mental illness.
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Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders: A Meta-analysis

TL;DR: Although no single sleep variable appeared to have absolute specificity for any particular psychiatric disorder, patterns of sleep disturbances associated with categories of psychiatric illnesses were observed.
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Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Developmental Issues and Implications for DSM-V

TL;DR: Epidemiological evidence covering prevalence, incidence, course, and risk factors of anxiety disorders among children and adolescents is reviewed for improved early recognition and differential diagnosis as well as prevention and treatment.
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The COVID-19 social media infodemic

TL;DR: This work addresses the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab, and identifies information spreading from questionable sources, finding different volumes of misinformation in each platform.
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