Patients' and caregivers' perceptions of bariatric surgery: A France and United States comparative infodemiology study using social media data mining.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People are conversing about bariatric surgery on social media, but little is known about the main themes being discussed.

Objective

To analyze discussions regarding bariatric surgery on social media platforms and to establish a cross-cultural comparison of posts geolocated in France and the United States.

Methods

Posts were retrieved between January 2015 and April 2021 from general, publicly accessed sites and health-related forums geolocated in both countries. After processing and cleaning the data, posts of patients and caregivers about bariatric surgery were identified using a supervised machine learning algorithm.

Results

The analysis dataset contained a total of 10,800 posts from 4,947 web users in France and 51,804 posts from 40,278 web users i

SUBMITTER: Czernichow S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151923 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature