Ethical Considerations in Infodemic Management: Systematic Scoping Review
Background: During health emergencies, effective infodemic management has become a paramount challenge. A new era marked by a rapidly changing information ecosystem, combined with the widespread...
View ArticleEffects of COVID-19 Illness and Vaccination Infodemic Through Mobile Health,...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on different countries because of which various health and safety measures were implemented, with digital media playing a pivotal role....
View ArticleThe Use of Natural Language Processing Methods in Reddit to Investigate...
Background: The growing availability of big data spontaneously generated by social media platforms allows us to leverage natural language processing (NLP) methods as valuable tools to understand the...
View ArticlePublic Perception of the Tobacco 21 Amendment on Twitter in the United...
Background: Following the signing of the Tobacco 21 Amendment (T21) in December 2019 to raise the minimum legal age for the sale of tobacco products from 18 to 21 years in the United States, there is a...
View ArticleEvaluating the Influence of Role-Playing Prompts on ChatGPT’s Misinformation...
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid spread of misinformation on social media created significant public health challenges. Large language models (LLMs), pretrained on extensive textual...
View ArticleDetection and Characterization of Online Substance Use Discussions Among...
Background: Video games have rapidly become mainstream in recent decades, with over half of the US population involved in some form of digital gaming. However, concerns regarding the potential harms of...
View ArticleAssociation Between X/Twitter and Prescribing Behavior During the COVID-19...
Background: Social media has become a vital tool for health care providers to quickly share information. However, its lack of content curation and expertise poses risks of misinformation and premature...
View ArticleUncovering the Top Nonadvertising Weight Loss Websites on Google: A...
Background: Online weight loss information is commonly sought by internet users, and it may impact their health decisions and behaviors. Previous studies examined a limited number of Google search...
View ArticleThe Complex Interaction Between Sleep-Related Information, Misinformation,...
The complex interplay between sleep-related information—both accurate and misleading—and its impact on clinical public health is an emerging area of concern. Lack of awareness of the importance of...
View ArticleChanges in Reproductive Health Information-Seeking Behaviors After the Dobbs...
Background: After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, confusion followed regarding the legality of abortion in different states across the country. Recent studies found increased Google...
View ArticleApplication of a Language Model Tool for COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Event...
Background: Spontaneous pharmacovigilance reporting systems are the main data source for signal detection for vaccines. However, there is a large time lag between the occurrence of an adverse event...
View ArticleNavigating Awareness and Strategies to Support Dementia Advocacy on Social...
Background: Understanding advocacy strategies is essential to improving dementia awareness, reducing stigma, supporting cognitive health promotion, and influencing policy to support people living with...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Combating Misinformation: An Evolutionary Perspective
Misinformation represents an evolutionary paradox: despite its harmful impact on society, it persists and evolves, thriving in the information-rich environment of the digital age. This paradox...
View ArticleUnraveling the Use of Disinformation Hashtags by Social Bots During the...
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms have been a venue for the exchange of messages, including those related to fake news. There are also accounts programmed to disseminate...
View ArticleHow Patients With Cancer Use the Internet to Search for Health Information:...
Background: Patients with cancer increasingly use the internet to seek health information. However, thus far, research treats web-based health information seeking (WHIS) behavior in a rather...
View ArticleGeosocial Media’s Early Warning Capabilities Across US County-Level Political...
Background: The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) sparked significant health concerns worldwide, prompting policy makers and health care experts to implement nonpharmaceutical public health...
View ArticleAssessment of Reliability and Validity of Celiac Disease–Related YouTube...
Background: YouTube is an increasingly used platform for medical information. However, the reliability and validity of health-related information on celiac disease (CD) on YouTube have not been...
View ArticleUnveiling Topics and Emotions in Arabic Tweets Surrounding the COVID-19...
Background: The worldwide effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been profound, and the Arab world has not been exempt from its wide-ranging consequences. Within this context, social media platforms...
View ArticleVisualizing YouTube Commenters’ Conceptions of the US Health Care System:...
Background: The challenge of extracting meaningful patterns from the overwhelming noise of social media to guide decision-makers remains largely unresolved. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the...
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