Tokac Umit, McKeever Michael, Razon Selen
University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA.
Swansea University, UK.
J Health Psychol. 2025 Mar;30(4):835-842. doi: 10.1177/13591053241258208. Epub 2024 Aug 6.
Beyond its immediate health consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an exacerbation in the mental health of the global population. Regular exercise and its lack thereof are also known to affect mental health. Tweets and their content analysis can provide information about aspects of users' lives including their health habits and mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine individuals' exercise habits and mental health during the pandemic by means of sentiment and correlational analyses. These results indicate that, while exercise and mental health tweets were more COVID-focused in the first 12 months of the pandemic, exercise tweets became more exercise-focused, and mental health tweets became more mental-health-focused eventually during the pandemic. Efforts to increase exercise participation in individuals may prove beneficial. Further research needs to examine the effects of exercise on mental health in the aftermath of COVID-19.
除了直接的健康影响外，新冠疫情还导致全球人口心理健康状况恶化。众所周知，经常锻炼与否也会影响心理健康。推文及其内容分析可以提供有关用户生活方面的信息，包括他们的健康习惯和心理健康。本研究的目的是通过情感分析和相关性分析，考察疫情期间个体的锻炼习惯和心理健康状况。这些结果表明，在疫情的前12个月里，锻炼和心理健康推文更多地聚焦于新冠疫情，而在疫情期间，锻炼推文最终变得更加聚焦于锻炼，心理健康推文则变得更加聚焦于心理健康。努力提高个体的锻炼参与度可能会被证明是有益的。进一步的研究需要考察新冠疫情过后锻炼对心理健康的影响。
