Tracking pregnant women's mental health through social media: an analysis of reddit posts.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Present an artificial intelligence-enabled pipeline for estimating the prevalence of depression and general anxiety among pregnant women using texts from their social media posts. Use said pipeline to analyze mental health trends on subreddits frequented by pregnant women and report on interesting insights that could be helpful for policy-makers, clinicians, etc.

Materials and methods

We used pretrained transformer-based models to build a natural language processing pipeline that can automatically detect depressed pregnant women on social media and carry out topic modeling to detect their concerns.

Results

We detected depressed posts by pregnant women on Reddit and validated the performance of the depression classification model by carrying out topic modeli

SUBMITTER: Dhankar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10684261 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature