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Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts
INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to use text-based social media content analysis from cancer-specific subreddits to evaluate depression and anxiety-loaded content. Natural language processing, automatic, and lexicon-based methods were employed to perform sentiment analysis and identify de...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10326387/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37425170 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150227 |
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author | Podina, Ioana R. Bucur, Ana-Maria Todea, Diana Fodor, Liviu Luca, Andreea Dinu, Liviu P. Boian, Rareș F. |
author_facet | Podina, Ioana R. Bucur, Ana-Maria Todea, Diana Fodor, Liviu Luca, Andreea Dinu, Liviu P. Boian, Rareș F. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to use text-based social media content analysis from cancer-specific subreddits to evaluate depression and anxiety-loaded content. Natural language processing, automatic, and lexicon-based methods were employed to perform sentiment analysis and identify depression and anxiety-loaded content. METHODS: Data was collected from 187 Reddit users who had received a cancer diagnosis, were currently undergoing treatment, or had completed treatment. Participants were split according to survivorship status into short-term, transition, and long-term cancer survivors. A total of 72524 posts were analyzed across the three cancer survivor groups. RESULTS: The results showed that short-term cancer survivors had significantly more depression-loaded posts and more anxiety-loaded words than long-term survivors, with no significant differences relative to the transition period. The topic analysis showed that long-term survivors, more than other stages of survivorship, have resources to share their experiences with suicidal ideation and mental health issues while providing support to their survivor community. DISCUSSION: The results indicate that Reddit texts seem to be an indicator of when the stressor is active and mental health issues are triggered. This sets the stage for Reddit to become a platform for screening and first-hand intervention delivery. Special attention should be dedicated to short-term survivors. |
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spelling | pubmed-103263872023-07-08 Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts Podina, Ioana R. Bucur, Ana-Maria Todea, Diana Fodor, Liviu Luca, Andreea Dinu, Liviu P. Boian, Rareș F. Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to use text-based social media content analysis from cancer-specific subreddits to evaluate depression and anxiety-loaded content. Natural language processing, automatic, and lexicon-based methods were employed to perform sentiment analysis and identify depression and anxiety-loaded content. METHODS: Data was collected from 187 Reddit users who had received a cancer diagnosis, were currently undergoing treatment, or had completed treatment. Participants were split according to survivorship status into short-term, transition, and long-term cancer survivors. A total of 72524 posts were analyzed across the three cancer survivor groups. RESULTS: The results showed that short-term cancer survivors had significantly more depression-loaded posts and more anxiety-loaded words than long-term survivors, with no significant differences relative to the transition period. The topic analysis showed that long-term survivors, more than other stages of survivorship, have resources to share their experiences with suicidal ideation and mental health issues while providing support to their survivor community. DISCUSSION: The results indicate that Reddit texts seem to be an indicator of when the stressor is active and mental health issues are triggered. This sets the stage for Reddit to become a platform for screening and first-hand intervention delivery. Special attention should be dedicated to short-term survivors. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10326387/ /pubmed/37425170 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150227 Text en Copyright © 2023 Podina, Bucur, Todea, Fodor, Luca, Dinu and Boian. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Podina, Ioana R. Bucur, Ana-Maria Todea, Diana Fodor, Liviu Luca, Andreea Dinu, Liviu P. Boian, Rareș F. Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts |
title | Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts |
title_full | Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts |
title_fullStr | Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts |
title_short | Mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of Reddit posts |
title_sort | mental health at different stages of cancer survival: a natural language processing study of reddit posts |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10326387/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37425170 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150227 |
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