Stillbirth Discourse on Instagram and X (Formerly Twitter): Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stillbirth, the loss of a fetus after the 20th week of pregnancy, affects about 1 in 160 deliveries in the United States and nearly 1 in 70 globally. It profoundly affects parents, often resulting in grief, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder, exacerbated by societal stigma and a lack of public awareness. However, no comprehensive analysis has explored social media discussions of stillbirth.

Objective

This study aimed to analyze stillbirth-related content on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) by (1) identifying dominant themes using topic modeling, evaluated using latent Dirichlet allocation, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), and BERTopic; (2) detecting influential hashtags via co-occurrence network analysis; (3) examining sentiments and

SUBMITTER: Paradise Vit A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12466797 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature