Text mining of Reddit posts: Using latent Dirichlet allocation to identify common parenting issues.

ABSTRACT: Parenting interventions offer an evidence-based method for the prevention and early intervention of child mental health problems, but to-date their population-level effectiveness has been limited by poor reach and engagement, particularly for fathers, working mothers, and disadvantaged families. Tailoring intervention content to parents' context offers the potential to enhance parent engagement and learning by increasing relevance of content to parents' daily experiences. However, this approach requires a detailed understanding of the common parenting situations and issues that parents face day-to-day, which is currently lacking. We sought to identify the most common parenting situations discussed by parents on parenting-specific forums of the free online discussion forum, Reddit. We aimed

SUBMITTER: Westrupp EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8809584 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature