Multiplatform characterization of online permanent female contraception discussion among social media users: analysis of Twitter and Reddit.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Individuals choosing permanent female contraception (PFC) face barriers including age and parity. Prior literature has focused on regret, but rarely on understanding patient perspectives. Social media is increasingly used to obtain medical information; hence this study seeks to use popular platforms to evaluate motivations, barriers, and facilitators to obtaining PFC.

Methods

This study collected Twitter and Reddit posts from October 2020 to April 2023 and July 2017 to April 2023, respectively. Data was analyzed using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), followed by manual deductive coding of relevant topic clusters to characterize user-generated PFC discussions. We collected 409,641 posts including 321,267 tweets and 88,374 Reddit posts

SUBMITTER: McMann TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12836916 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature