id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-327721-y39751g4 Zhang, Yan Emotional “inflection point” in public health emergencies with the 2019 New Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP) in China 2020-07-19 .txt text/plain 5385 276 55 BACKGROUND: The outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) in Wuhan, Hubei, has caused very serious consequences and severely affected people's lives and mental health. METHODS: This study used self-designed questionnaires and artificial intelligence (AI) to assess and analyze the emotional state of over 30,000 college students during the outbreak period in January (T1) and home quarantine in February (T2). From these data, it indicated that during the period of home isolation, college students in Hubei Province showed more negative emotions due to their long-term exposure to the epidemic. There is also the stress symptom of "seeming as being infected" caused by too much browsing of the relevant news every day, which directly affects the emotions of students, they became more sensible and anxious to disease, this is a mental tension (Peng et al., 2019) . This survey found that there is an emotional "infection point" in February among college students, especially in the Hubei area. ./cache/cord-327721-y39751g4.txt ./txt/cord-327721-y39751g4.txt