Mining of Textual Health Information from Reddit: Analysis of Chronic Diseases With Extracted Entities and Their Relations.
Vasiliki FoufiTatsawan TimakumChristophe Gaudet-BlavignacChristian LovisMin SongPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2019)
This study showed that people are eager to share their personal experience with chronic diseases on social media platforms despite possible privacy and security issues. The results reported in this paper are promising and demonstrate the need for more in-depth studies on the way patients with chronic diseases express themselves on social media platforms.