Areas of Interest and Social Consideration of Antidepressants on English Tweets: A Natural Language Processing Classification Study.

ABSTRACT: Antidepressants are the foundation of the treatment of major depressive disorders. Despite the scientific evidence, there is still a sustained debate and concern about the efficacy of antidepressants, with widely differing opinions among the population about their positive and negative effects, which may condition people's attitudes towards such treatments. Our aim is to investigate Twitter posts about antidepressants in order to have a better understanding of the social consideration of antidepressants. We gathered public tweets mentioning antidepressants written in English, published throughout a 22-month period, between 1 January 2019 and 31 October 2020. We analysed the content of each tweet, determining in the first place whether they included medical aspects or not. Those with medica

SUBMITTER: de Anta L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8879287 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature