Large-scale longitudinal analysis of the progression of alcohol use among members of a social media platform: an observational study.

ABSTRACT: Background: The large-scale identification of people at risk of transitioning from relatively lower-risk to higher-risk alcohol use (e.g. problem drinking) remains a public health challenge despite advances in the identification of risk and protective factors.Objective: This observational study used machine learning to identify Reddit (social media platform) posting activity associated with transitioning from lower- to higher-risk forms of alcohol use.Methods: We employed bottom-up and top-down approaches to identify lower- and higher-risk alcohol-related subreddits. Using a non-parametric negative control procedure, we estimated each of 10,006 Reddit communities' risk of progression from lower- to higher-risk alcohol-related communities and applied a random forest mod

SUBMITTER: Andrade FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12533264 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature