Identifying Health-Related Discussions of Cannabis Use on Twitter by Using a Medical Dictionary: Content Analysis of Tweets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The cannabis product and regulatory landscape is changing in the United States. Against the backdrop of these changes, there have been increasing reports on health-related motives for cannabis use and adverse events from its use. The use of social media data in monitoring cannabis-related health conversations may be useful to state- and federal-level regulatory agencies as they grapple with identifying cannabis safety signals in a comprehensive and scalable fashion.

Objective

This study attempted to determine the extent to which a medical dictionary-the Unified Medical Language System Consumer Health Vocabulary-could identify cannabis-related motivations for use and health consequences of cannabis use based on Twitter posts in 2020.

Methods

Twitter posts co

SUBMITTER: Allem JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8917433 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature