Crisis Text Conversations from Louisiana Youth Following Hurricanes, 2018-2023

2,149 anonymized crisis text conversations from Louisiana youth between 2018 and 2023 reveal distinct temporal phases of mental health help-seeking following six hurricanes. The data, analyzed using structural topic modeling, documents a 'three waves' pattern of post-disaster psychological response and the effects of compound disasters with Hurricane Ida and COVID-19. Author Margaret M. Sugg published the dataset on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the temporal trajectory of suicide ideation based on the peak at 61-90 days post-landfall
• Analyzing compound disaster effects on mental health topics like Grief and Abuse & Safety Concerns
• Developing stepped-care intervention frameworks based on identified crisis, coping, stressor, and resource domains
• Training surveillance tools for real-time disaster mental health monitoring using crisis hotline data

Strengths

• 2,149 real-world crisis text conversations provide authentic data on youth mental health
• Data spans five years (2018-2023) and captures responses to six hurricanes
• Conversations are classified into eight mutually exclusive recovery periods based on days since landfall
• Analysis identified 12 distinct crisis topics organized into four domains

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its collection from Louisiana youth

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Analysis of anonymized crisis text conversations using structural topic modeling (STM)

Time Range

2018-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 17:41:59; freshness should be verified

Geography

Louisiana, USA