Analyzing preventive precautions to limit spread of COVID-19.

Autor: Ahmad A; Department of Computer Science, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan., Rustam F; Department of Software Engineering, School of Systems and Technology, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan., Saad E; Department of Computer Science, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan., Siddique MA; Department of Computer Science, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan., Lee E; Department of Computer Science, Broward College, Broward County, Florida, United States of America., Mansilla AO; European University of The Atlantic, Santander, Spain.; Iberoamerican International University, Campeche, Mexico., Díez IT; Department of Signal Theory and Communications and Telematic Engineering, Unviersity of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain., Ashraf I; Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Korea.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2022 Aug 24; Vol. 17 (8), pp. e0272350. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 24 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272350
Abstrakt: With the global spread of COVID-19, the governments advised the public for adopting safety precautions to limit its spread. The virus spreads from people, contaminated places, and nozzle droplets that necessitate strict precautionary measures. Consequently, different safety precautions have been implemented to fight COVID-19 such as wearing a facemask, restriction of social gatherings, keeping 6 feet distance, etc. Despite the warnings, highlighted need for such measures, and the increasing severity of the pandemic situation, the expected number of people adopting these precautions is low. This study aims at assessing and understanding the public perception of COVID-19 safety precautions, especially the use of facemask. A unified framework of sentiment lexicon with the proposed ensemble EB-DT is devised to analyze sentiments regarding safety precautions. Extensive experiments are performed with a large dataset collected from Twitter. In addition, the factors leading to a negative perception of safety precautions are analyzed by performing topic analysis using the Latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm. The experimental results reveal that 12% of the tweets correspond to negative sentiments towards facemask precaution mainly by its discomfort. Analysis of change in peoples' sentiment over time indicates a gradual increase in the positive sentiments regarding COVID-19 restrictions.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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