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Repisalud author Iglesias-Sánchez, Patricia P author Vaccaro Witt, Gustavo Fabián author Cabrera, Francisco E author Jambrino-Maldonado, Carmen 2024-02-12T19:47:00Z 2024-02-12T19:47:00Z 2020-08-14 10.3390/ijerph17165918 1660-4601 International journal of environmental research and public health http://hdl.handle.net/10668/16126 32824110 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/18097 This study examines how confinement measures established during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis affected the emotions of the population. For this purpose, public sentiment on social media and digital ecosystems in Spain is analyzed. We identified affective tones towards media and citizens published on social media focusing on six basic emotions: anger, fear, joy, sadness, disgust and uncertainty. The main contribution of this work is the evidence of contagious sentiments and, consequently, the possibility of using this new dimension of social media as a form of a "collective therapy". This paper contributes to understanding the impact of confinement measures in a pandemic from the point of view of emotional health. This analysis provides a set of practical implications that can guide conceptual and empirical work in health crisis management with an alternative approach, especially useful for decision-making processes facing emergency responses and health crises, even in an unprecedented global health crisis such as the traumatic events caused by the COVID-19 disease. eng COVID-19 confinement contagion of emotions emergency response health crisis isolation sentiment analysis The Contagion of Sentiments during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: The Case of Isolation in Spain. research article