Characterizing the Prevalence of Obesity Misinformation, Factual Content, Stigma, and Positivity on the Social Media Platform Reddit Between 2011 and 2019: Infodemiology Study.
Catherine C PollackJennifer A EmondAlistair James O'MalleyAnna ByrdPeter GreenKatherine E MillerSoroush VosoughiDiane Gilbert-DiamondTracy L OnegaPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2022)
There are distinct psycholinguistic properties between types of obesity-related content on Reddit that can be leveraged to rapidly identify deleterious content with minimal human intervention and provide insights into how the Reddit population perceives patients with obesity. Future work should assess whether these properties are shared across languages and other social media platforms.
Keyphrases
- social media
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- health information
- high fat diet induced
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- randomized controlled trial
- endothelial cells
- risk factors
- mental health
- adipose tissue
- healthcare
- social support
- body mass index
- depressive symptoms
- physical activity
- mental illness
- drug induced
- hepatitis c virus
- current status
- induced pluripotent stem cells