How does Tourette syndrome impact adolescents' daily living? A text mining study.

ABSTRACT: Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disease in which clinical manifestations are essentially present during childhood and adolescence, corresponding to one of the critical development phases. However, its consequences on the daily lives of young patients have been insufficiently investigated. Here, we aimed to investigate this using a statistical text mining approach, allowing for the analysis of a large volume of free textual data. Sixty-two adolescents with Tourette syndrome participated in an interview in which they discussed their daily life (i) in school, (ii) at home, and (iii) with strangers, (iv) the aspect of Tourette syndrome which caused the most difficulty, and (v) their thoughts regarding their future as adults. Following data pre-processing, these corpora were analyzed

SUBMITTER: Atkinson-Clement C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10682273 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature