@inproceedings{334c063c0be24cd497c3cc874db5f409,
title = "Understanding Correlations of Loneliness in India and USA",
abstract = "Loneliness is a global public health issues contributing to a variety of mental and physical health issues. It also increases the risk of life-threatening conditions as well as contributes to burden on the economy in terms of the number of days lost to productivity. Loneliness is a highly varied concept though, which is a result of multiple factors. To understand loneliness this paper carries out a comparative analysis of USA and India through Twitter data on the keywords associated with loneliness. The comparative analysis on loneliness is in the vein of comparative public health literature and to contribute to develop a global public health map on loneliness. The results showed that the dynamics of loneliness through the topics correlated vary across geographical locations. Social media data can be used to capture the dynamics of loneliness which can vary from one place to another depending on the socioeconomic and cultural norms and sociopolitical policies.",
keywords = "Loneliness, Twitter, sentiment analysis",
author = "Shah, {Hurmat Ali} and Mahmood Alzubaidi and Zubair Shah and Tanvir Alam and Mowafa Househ",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The authors and IOS Press.; 21st International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2023 ; Conference date: 01-07-2023 Through 03-07-2023",
year = "2023",
month = jun,
day = "29",
doi = "10.3233/SHTI230583",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "656--659",
editor = "John Mantas and Parisis Gallos and Emmanouil Zoulias and Arie Hasman and Househ, {Mowafa S.} and Martha Charalampidou and Andriana Magdalinou",
booktitle = "Healthcare Transformation with Informatics and Artificial Intelligence",
address = "Netherlands",
}