Classifying Comments on Social Media Related to Living Kidney Donation: Machine Learning Training and Validation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Living kidney donation currently constitutes approximately a quarter of all kidney donations. There exist barriers that preclude prospective donors from donating, such as medical ineligibility and costs associated with donation. A better understanding of perceptions of and barriers to living donation could facilitate the development of effective policies, education opportunities, and outreach strategies and may lead to an increased number of living kidney donations. Prior research focused predominantly on perceptions and barriers among a small subset of individuals who had prior exposure to the donation process. The viewpoints of the general public have rarely been represented in prior research.

Objective

The current study designed a web-scraping method and machin

SUBMITTER: Asghari M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9682456 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature