Investigating the Classification of Living Kidney Donation Experiences on Reddit and Understanding the Sensitivity of ChatGPT to Prompt Engineering: Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Living kidney donation (LKD), where individuals donate one kidney while alive, plays a critical role in increasing the number of kidneys available for those experiencing kidney failure. Previous studies show that many generous people are interested in becoming living donors; however, a huge gap exists between the number of patients on the waiting list and the number of living donors yearly.

Objective

To bridge this gap, we aimed to investigate how to identify potential living donors from discussions on public social media forums so that educational interventions could later be directed to them.

Methods

Using Reddit forums as an example, this study described the classification of Reddit content shared about LKD into three classes: (1) present (presently deal

SUBMITTER: Nielsen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11845884 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature