Topics Analysis of Reddit and Twitter Posts Discussing Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Distress From 2017 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social media platforms are popular tools for people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to seek support. In the current study, we sought to examine and characterize IBD and distress discourse on public social media platforms. Our goal was to identify topics associated with these online discussions.

Methods

We collected public social media posts about IBD and distress from Reddit (N = 40 625) and Twitter (N = 40 306) published between September 2017 and August 2019. We created a term-based dictionary to characterize posts based on 8 different, nonmutually exclusive topics: (1) symptoms, (2) medication, (3) nutrition, (4) procedures, (5) marijuana, (6) stigma, (7) ostomy, and (8) intimacy. We used descriptive statistics to characterize the frequency

SUBMITTER: Rohde JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9802272 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature