Seidenberg Andrew B, Pagoto Sherry L, Vickey Theodore A, Linos Eleni, Wehner Mackenzie R, Costa Renata Dalla, Geller Alan C
Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, CB 7440, USA.
Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
Transl Behav Med. 2016 Jun;6(2):271-6. doi: 10.1007/s13142-016-0388-6.
Few surveillance tools exist for monitoring tanning bed injuries. Twitter data were examined to identify and describe reports of tanning bed-caused burns. Tweets sent in 2013 containing keywords for tanning bed use and burning were content analyzed to determine whether a burn caused by a tanning bed was described, and additional data on tanning behavior and burn characteristics were extracted. After content assessment, 15,178 (64 %) tweets were found to describe a tanning bed-caused burn. Sites most reportedly burnt were buttocks (n = 3117), face/head (n = 1020), and chest/breast (n = 546). Alarmingly, 200 burns to the eyes/eyelids were mentioned. A total of 456 tweets described burning >1 time from a tanning bed. A total of 211 tweets mentioned falling asleep inside the tanning bed. In 2013, over 15,000 tweets reported tanning bed-caused burns. Twitter data provides unique insight into tanning behaviors and injuries not captured through traditional public health surveillance.
用于监测晒黑床伤害的监测工具很少。研究了推特数据，以识别和描述晒黑床导致烧伤的报告。对2013年发送的包含晒黑床使用和烧伤关键词的推文进行内容分析，以确定是否描述了由晒黑床引起的烧伤，并提取了有关晒黑行为和烧伤特征的其他数据。经过内容评估，发现15178条（64%）推文描述了晒黑床导致的烧伤。据报道烧伤最多的部位是臀部（n = 3117）、面部/头部（n = 1020）和胸部/乳房（n = 546）。令人担忧的是，提到了200例眼睛/眼睑烧伤。共有456条推文描述了在晒黑床上不止一次被烧伤。共有211条推文提到在晒黑床内睡着。2013年，超过15000条推文报告了晒黑床导致的烧伤。推特数据为传统公共卫生监测未捕捉到的晒黑行为和伤害提供了独特的见解。
