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Areas of Interest and Social Consideration of Antidepressants on English Tweets: A Natural Language Processing Classification Study.

Laura de AntaMiguel Angel Alvarez-MonMiguel Ángel OrtegaCristina SalazarCarolina Donat-VargasJavier Santoma-VilaclaraMaria Martin-MartinezGuillermo LaheraLuis Gutiérrez-RojasRoberto Rodriguez-JimenezJavier QuinteroMelchor Alvarez De Mon
Published in: Journal of personalized medicine (2022)
This study shows that Twitter users that take antidepressants, or their friends and family, use social media to share medical information about antidepressants. However, other users that do not talk about antidepressants from a personal or close experience, frequently do so in a stigmatizing manner, by trivializing them. Our study also brings to light the scarce presence of caregivers in Twitter.
Keyphrases
  • social media
  • major depressive disorder
  • healthcare
  • health information
  • autism spectrum disorder