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Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States using Twitter

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Whether or not U.S. women follow the recommended breast cancer screening guidelines is related to the perceived benefits and harms of the procedure. Twitter is a rich source of subjective information containing individuals’ sentiment towards public health interventions/technologies. Using a modified version of Hutto and Gilbert (2014) sentiment classifier, we described the temporal, geospatial, and thematic patterns of public sentiment towards breast cancer screening with 8 months of tweets (n=64,524) in the U.S. To examine how sentiment was related to screening uptake behaviour, we investigated and identified significant associations between breast cancer screening sentiment (via Twitter) and breast cancer screening uptake (via BRFSS) at the state level.

Citation

K. Wong, F. Davis, O. Zaiane, Y. Yasui. "Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States using Twitter". International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Porto, Portugal, November 2016.

Keywords: Cancer screening, social media, data visualization, sentiment analysis, spatial analysis, Twitter
Category: In Conference
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BibTeX

@incollection{Wong+al:16,
  author = {Kai on Wong and Faith G. Davis and Osmar R. Zaiane and Yutaka
    Yasui},
  title = {Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States
    using Twitter},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information
    Retrieval},
  year = 2016,
}

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