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Area of Science:

  • Digital Health
  • Health Informatics
  • Social Media Analysis

Background:

  • Social media and mHealth apps facilitate health information sharing.
  • Online discussions offer insights into daily life disease management and recovery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the feasibility of acquiring and modeling topics from a major online breast cancer support forum.
  • To uncover less obvious aspects of breast cancer disease management and recovery.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative content analysis (QCA) for initial topic categorization.
  • Topic modeling using Machine Learning Language Toolkit.
  • Multiple linear regression (MLR) to identify correlated topics.

Main Results:

  • QCA identified 20 user discussion categories.
  • Topic modeling organized over 4 million posts into 30 topics.
  • Four clusters emerged: Symptoms & Diagnosis, Treatment, Financial, and Family & Friends. Six topics were statistically significant.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method reveals patient concerns not always apparent in clinical settings.
  • Topics like caregiver support and late therapy side effects are valuable for clinicians.
  • Social media data can enhance clinical workflows by detailing recovery's impact on daily life.