Twitter as a Tool for Health Research: A Systematic Review
By Lauren Sinnenberg, A. Buttenheim, Kevin A. Padrez, C. Mancheno, Lyle Ungar, R. Merchant. American Journal of Public Health, 2017
586 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Epidemiology, Health, Social Psychology
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- Misinformation Dissemination in Twitter in the COVID-19 Era (2020, unknown): “Studies have shown that Twitter content may provide crucial insights into the ongoing public health crisis.(1,2) However, some studies suggest that Twitter may play an important role in propagating misinformation in previous epidemics such as the Zika, Ebola, and yellow fever virus outbreaks.”
- Top Concerns of Tweeters During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infoveillance Study (2020, background): “A systematic review paper identified six main uses of Twitter for public health: analysis of shared content, surveillance of public health topics or diseases, public engagement, recruitment of research participants, Twitter-based public health interventions, and network analysis of Twitter users [9]”
- Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Mental Health: Systematic Review (2021, unknown): “For instance, Sinnenberg et al [36] published a systematic review about Twitter as a tool for health research that included 137 different studies and analyzed over 5 billion tweets using ML; Castro et al [37] have processed 4.2 million EHRs spanning a period of over 20 years.”
- Social Media Use for Health Purposes: Systematic Review (2021, background): “Studies found that these organizations leveraged social media to advocate for change in public policies related to health issues such as HIV/AIDS [62] and mental health [63], raise funds for individual medical care and health-related research [64,65], and raise awareness and promote actions to addre”