Characterizing Awareness of Schizophrenia Among Facebook Users by Leveraging Facebook Advertisement Estimates.

Koustuv Saha Ingmar Weber Michael Leo Birnbaum Munmun De Choudhury

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2017)

Facebook's advertising platform can be used to construct a plausible index of population-scale schizophrenia awareness. However, only estimates of awareness can be obtained, and the index provides no information on the quality of the information users receive online.

Keyphrases

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