id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-311288-6ttux2uu Luo, Chen What triggers online help-seeking retransmission during the COVID-19 period? Empirical evidence from Chinese social media 2020-11-03 .txt text/plain 6202 385 43 We built an analytical framework that emphasized content characteristics, including information completeness, proximity, support seeking type, disease severity, and emotion of help-seeking messages. For example, harness the social media posts to predict infected case counts and inform timely responses under the infoveillance or infodemiology framework [3, 4] ; analyze the help-seeking posts to identify the characteristics of COVID-19 patients [5] ; More retransmission means more users receiving the message, thus increasing the chance of getting help. There is plenty of research providing conceptual references, such as the depth of self-disclosure [16, 28] , different types of support messages [16, 29] , physical and emotional proximity to the target [30] , the social capital stock of the help seeker [22] . Enlightened by existing experience, we will summarize the impelling factors of help-seeking information diffusion into five dimensions: completeness, proximity, support typology, disease severity, emotion, and elaborate them in the following sections. ./cache/cord-311288-6ttux2uu.txt ./txt/cord-311288-6ttux2uu.txt