TY - GEN
T1 - Comparing Health Forums
T2 - 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021
AU - Guimarães, Anna
AU - Terolli, Erisa
AU - Weikum, Gerhard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/10/23
Y1 - 2021/10/23
N2 - Health discussion forums provide valuable information about diseases, symptoms, treatments and risk factors from a patient perspective, and allow exchanging experiences and mutual support. This paper analyzes and compares three different forums, Health Boards, Patient and Reddit, using three major conditions as representative samples: blood pressure, depression and diabetes. The analysis investigates three principal dimensions: the intensity of user engagement, the explicit coverage of salient entities such as frequent symptoms or risk factors, and the degree of medical detail expressed by specific drugs and their dosages. We report on commonalities across the three forums and on key findings about how they differ in their contents and interactions.
AB - Health discussion forums provide valuable information about diseases, symptoms, treatments and risk factors from a patient perspective, and allow exchanging experiences and mutual support. This paper analyzes and compares three different forums, Health Boards, Patient and Reddit, using three major conditions as representative samples: blood pressure, depression and diabetes. The analysis investigates three principal dimensions: the intensity of user engagement, the explicit coverage of salient entities such as frequent symptoms or risk factors, and the degree of medical detail expressed by specific drugs and their dosages. We report on commonalities across the three forums and on key findings about how they differ in their contents and interactions.
KW - Health informatics
KW - Online health forums
KW - Social Computing
KW - Social Networks
KW - Text tagging
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U2 - 10.1145/3462204.3481748
DO - 10.1145/3462204.3481748
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118565789
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 57
EP - 61
BT - CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Y2 - 23 October 2021 through 27 October 2021
ER -