ИСТИНА

Цель проекта заключается в исследовании психологического состояния общества и психического здоровья представителей различных социальных групп в условиях переживания пандемии COVID-19 с позиций системного подхода с применением цифровых методов и технологий, направленных на выявление, оценку и прогноз негативных психологических последствий пандемии и возможностей их преодоления на индивидуальном и социальном уровнях.

Epidemics and pandemics of infectious and viral diseases lead to human losses and cause serious damage to the physical health of people who have suffered from the disease. This puts the immediate search for an effective treatment or the creation of an effective harmless vaccine among the most pressing problems of science and society. At the same time, the impact on mental health, which may seem less significant at first glance, affects a much broader population, not just those who have personally experienced a virus-induced illness (patients, their relatives, health workers, and other services who put themselves and their loved ones at risk due to the need to perform professional duties while taking measures to contain the spread of epidemics).The high scientific significance of the project lies in the implementation of a systematic approach that involves the use of explicit and implicit research methods that allow us to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the psychological state of individual social groups and society as a whole during the experience of the pandemic and measures to contain it. For the most complete and comprehensive study of the problem, a systematic "digital" approach will be developed, aimed at studying the psychological well-being and mental health of the Russian society, taking into account the socio-demographic, cultural, age-psychological and individual characteristics of various social groups. This approach includes 1) the use of new digital technologies-virtual reality and I-tracking technologies, which allow to identify individual characteristics of the response (including unconscious ones) to the pandemic situation and consequences; 2) conducting large-scale monitoring of the psychological state of society and various groups; 3) study the activities and emotional responses of various groups in the Internet information and communication network and online communities in response to the spread of the pandemic, measures to contain it and its consequences through the use of data-mining and text-mining. The project plans to conduct two waves of large-scale online monitoring of the psychological well-being and mental health of social groups of Russians who are in different conditions of experiencing the pandemic and measures to combat it, as well as demonstrate different forms of perception of the situation. They are related to the specifics of the implementation of professional, educational and other types of activities during the period of COVID-19 distribution. At least 7000 subjects are expected to participate in online monitoring. The use of data mining (data-mining and text-mining) of network activity and features of the emotional response of the general population to information support for the spread of the pandemic and measures to contain it will help to identify signs of constructive and destructive information content on the Internet and determine its impact on the psychological well-being and mental health of Russians. As part of the project, it is planned to analyze at least 500000 user profiles of popular social networks, which are the main source and method of information exchange, as well as a channel for communication in conditions of self-isolation. With the use of virtual reality technology and eye tracking will be developed and piloted a unique experiment. It will allow you to identify objective psychological and psychophysiological indicators at an unconscious level that are associated with the impact of the experience of the pandemic on the psychological state of the individual. The implementation of a systematic approach to digital monitoring of the psychological well-being and mental health of Russians will help identify factors, optimal strategies, individual and social resources that will contribute to the successful coping of individuals and society with the impact of the pandemic and measures to contain it. They will help to develop recommendations that will help to activate individual strategies for coping with possible future viral and i¬¬nfectious epidemics and emergencies, as well as necessary and effective preventive measures that are aimed at reducing the risks and minimizing the negative consequences of the pandemic for the psychological well-being and mental health of the Russian society.