Social listening - revealing Parkinson's disease over day and night.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nocturnal symptoms in Parkinson's disease are often treated after management of daytime manifestations. In order to better understand the unmet needs of nocturnal symptoms management, we analyzed the characteristics and burden of nocturnal symptoms from patients' perspectives and explored their changes over time. Overall symptoms (occurring at day or night) were collected to compare whether the unmet needs related to nocturnal symptoms and to overall symptoms are different.

Methods

We used a Social Listening big-data technique to analyze large amounts of Parkinson's disease symptoms in dialogues available from social media platforms in 2016 to 2018. These symptoms were classified as either overall symptoms or nocturnal symptoms. We used share of voice (SOV) of sym

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7780378 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature