A Corpus Analysis of Social Connections and Social Isolation in Adolescents Suffering from Depressive Disorders

Jia-Wen Guo, Danielle L Mowery, Djin Lai, Katherine Sward, Mike Conway


Abstract
Social connection and social isolation are associated with depressive symptoms, particularly in adolescents and young adults, but how these concepts are documented in clinical notes is unknown. This pilot study aimed to identify the topics relevant to social connection and isolation by analyzing 145 clinical notes from patients with depression diagnosis. We found that providers, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists, document descriptions of both social connection and social isolation.
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W17-3103
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology — From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality
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August
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2017
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Vancouver, BC
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CLPsych
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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26–31
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-3103
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-3103
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Jia-Wen Guo, Danielle L Mowery, Djin Lai, Katherine Sward, and Mike Conway. 2017. A Corpus Analysis of Social Connections and Social Isolation in Adolescents Suffering from Depressive Disorders. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology — From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, pages 26–31, Vancouver, BC. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Corpus Analysis of Social Connections and Social Isolation in Adolescents Suffering from Depressive Disorders (Guo et al., CLPsych 2017)
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