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Profiling Commenters on Mental Health-Related Online Forums: A Methodological Example Focusing on Eating Disorder-Related Commenters.

Duncan McCaigMark T ElliottCynthia S Q SiewLukasz WalasekCaroline Meyer
Published in: JMIR mental health (2019)
The article exemplifies a methodology that provides insight into subtypes of mental health-related forums and the characteristics of their commenters. The findings have implications for future research and Web-based psychological interventions. With the publicly available data and code provided, researchers can easily reproduce the analyses or utilize the methodology to investigate other mental health-related forums.
Keyphrases
  • mental health
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  • artificial intelligence
  • sleep quality