The Use of Social Media to Express and Manage Medical Uncertainty in...
Background: Social media has the potential to provide social support for rare disease communities; however, little is known about the use of social media for the expression of medical uncertainty, a...
View ArticleDynamic Associations Between Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Background: Health agencies have been widely adopting social media to disseminate important information, educate the public on emerging health issues, and understand public opinions. The Centers for...
View ArticleVerification in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sentiment Analysis...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted global behavioral restrictions, impacting public mental health. Sentiment analysis, a tool for assessing individual and public emotions from text data, gained...
View ArticleThe Role of Social Media in Knowledge, Perceptions, and Self-Reported...
Background: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has served as a channel of communication, a venue for entertainment, and a mechanism for information dissemination. Objective: This study aims...
View ArticleUsing Social Listening for Digital Public Health Surveillance of Human...
Despite challenges related to the data quality, representativeness, and accuracy of artificial intelligence–driven tools, commercially available social listening platforms have many of the attributes...
View ArticleGovernment-Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Collaboration in Macao’s...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented global vaccination efforts, with social media being a popular tool for vaccine promotion. Objective: This study probes into Macao’s COVID-19...
View ArticleDevelopment of a Medical Social Media Ethics Scale and Assessment of #IRad,...
Background: Social media posts by clinicians are not bound by the same rules as peer-reviewed publications, raising ethical concerns that have not been extensively characterized or quantified....
View ArticleThe Journey of Engaging With Web-Based Self-Harm and Suicide Content:...
Background: Self-harm and suicide are major public health concerns worldwide, with attention focused on the web environment as a helpful or harmful influence. Longitudinal research on self-harm and...
View ArticleExploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Twitter in Japan:...
Background: Despite being a pandemic, the impact of the spread of COVID-19 extends beyond public health, influencing areas such as the economy, education, work style, and social relationships. Research...
View ArticleEvaluating the Disease-Related Experiences of TikTok Users With Lupus...
Background: Lupus erythematosus (LE) is an autoimmune condition that is associated with significant detriments to quality of life and daily functioning. TikTok, a popular social networking platform for...
View ArticlePerceptions of Health Misinformation on Social Media: Cross-Sectional Survey...
Background: Health misinformation on social media can negatively affect knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, undermining clinical care and public health efforts. Therefore, it is vital to better...
View ArticleExperiences of Women With Medical Abortion Care Reflected in Social Media...
Background: Abortion (also known as termination of pregnancy) is an essential element of women’s reproductive health care. Feedback from women who underwent medical termination of pregnancy about their...
View ArticleThe Role of Scientific Research in Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Discussions...
Background: Attitudes toward the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and accuracy of information shared about this topic in web-based settings vary widely. As real-time, global exposure to web-based...
View ArticleTikTok as a Source of Health Information and Misinformation for Young Women...
Background: TikTok is one of the most-used and fastest-growing social media platforms in the world, and recent reports indicate that it has become an increasingly popular source of news and information...
View ArticleAnalyzing Questions About Alcohol in Pregnancy Using Web-Based Forum Topics:...
Background: Prenatal alcohol exposure represents a substantial public health concern as it may lead to detrimental outcomes, including pregnancy complications and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder....
View ArticleExploring How Youth Use TikTok for Mental Health Information in British...
Background: TikTok (ByteDance) experienced a surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way for people to interact with others, share experiences and thoughts related to the pandemic, and...
View ArticleCollective Intelligence–Based Participatory COVID-19 Surveillance in Accra,...
Background: Infectious disease surveillance is difficult in many low- and middle-income countries. Information market (IM)–based participatory surveillance is a crowdsourcing method that encourages...
View ArticleDescriptions of Scientific Evidence and Uncertainty of Unproven COVID-19...
Background: Politicization and misinformation or disinformation of unproven COVID-19 therapies have resulted in communication challenges in presenting science to the public, especially in times of...
View ArticleLarge Language Models Can Enable Inductive Thematic Analysis of a Social...
Background: Manually analyzing public health–related content from social media provides valuable insights into the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals, shedding light on trends and...
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