Pandrekar Sheetal, Chen Xin, Gopalkrishna Gaurav, Srivastava Avi, Saltz Mary, Saltz Joel, Wang Fusheng
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Dec 5;2018:867-876. eCollection 2018.
Opioid-abuse epidemic in the United States has escalated to national attention due to the dramatic increase of opioid overdose deaths. Analyzing opioid-related social media has the potential to reveal patterns of opioid abuse at a national scale, understand opinions of the public, and provide insights to support prevention and treatment. Reddit is a community based social media with more reliable content curated by the community through voting. In this study, we collected and analyzed all opioid related discussions from January 2014 to October 2017, which contains 51,537 posts by 16,162 unique users. We analyzed the data to understand the psychological categories of the posts, and performed topic modeling to reveal the major topics of interest. We also characterized the extent of social support received from comments and scores by each post. Last, we analyzed statistically significant difference in the posts between anonymous and non-anonymous users.
由于阿片类药物过量死亡人数急剧增加，美国的阿片类药物滥用疫情已引起全国关注。分析与阿片类药物相关的社交媒体有潜力揭示全国范围内阿片类药物滥用的模式，了解公众意见，并为预防和治疗提供支持性见解。Reddit是一个基于社区的社交媒体，其内容由社区通过投票进行更可靠的筛选。在本研究中，我们收集并分析了2014年1月至2017年10月期间所有与阿片类药物相关的讨论，其中包含16162名不同用户发布的51537篇帖子。我们分析数据以了解帖子的心理类别，并进行主题建模以揭示主要关注主题。我们还通过每条帖子的评论和评分来描述所获得的社会支持程度。最后，我们分析了匿名用户和非匿名用户帖子之间的统计学显著差异。
