Sentiment Analysis Surrounding Blepharoplasty in Online Health Forums.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Upper and lower blepharoplasty are among the most common procedures in aesthetic surgery and are often emotionally laden due to the subjective nature of outcomes and implications with beauty and self-identity. This article capitalizes on the increasing wealth of patient-provided health information online and is the first to analyze the emotions surrounding blepharoplasty discussions in an open internet health forum, MedHelp.

Methods

We used Python to scrape MedHelp for threads that contained "blepharoplasty" and then used IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding to perform sentiment analyses, calculating a general sentiment score (-1 to +1) as well as emotion scores for anger, sadness, joy, fear, and disgust (0 to 1) for posts and keywords contained within the po

SUBMITTER: Lu TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038503 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature