Scanxiety Conversations on Twitter: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scan-associated anxiety (or "scanxiety") is commonly experienced by people having cancer-related scans. Social media platforms such as Twitter provide a novel source of data for observational research.

Objective

We aimed to identify posts on Twitter (or "tweets") related to scanxiety, describe the volume and content of these tweets, and describe the demographics of users posting about scanxiety.

Methods

We manually searched for "scanxiety" and associated keywords in cancer-related, publicly available, English-language tweets posted between January 2018 and December 2020. We defined "conversations" as a primary tweet (the first tweet about scanxiety) and subsequent tweets (interactions stemming from the primary tweet). User demographics and the volume of pri

SUBMITTER: Bui KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10157462 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature