Understanding the Response of Canadians to the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the Kübler-Ross Model: Twitter Data Analysis

Ruth G Abebe; Schwab Bakombo; Anne T M Konkle

doi:10.3390/ijerph20043197

Understanding the Response of Canadians to the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the Kübler-Ross Model: Twitter Data Analysis

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 11;20(4):3197. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20043197.

Authors

Ruth G Abebe¹, Schwab Bakombo¹, Anne T M Konkle^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
² School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
³ Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic in March 2020, which led to the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions that had inadvertent physical, mental and social effects. The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the experiences and responses of Canadians to these interventions on Twitter using the Kübler-Ross Change Curve (KRCC) during the first six months of the pandemic. Tweets were analyzed using sentiment analysis, thematic content analysis and KRCC. The findings highlight that many Canadians attempted to adapt to the changes but had a predominantly negative outlook on policies due to the financial and social repercussions.

Keywords: COVID-19; Canada; pandemic; policies; stress.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Canada
Humans
Pandemics
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
Social Media*

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.