[HTML][HTML] Sentiment analysis in health and well-being: systematic review

A Zunic, P Corcoran, I Spasic - JMIR medical informatics, 2020 - medinform.jmir.org
Background Sentiment analysis (SA) is a subfield of natural language processing whose
aim is to automatically classify the sentiment expressed in a free text. It has found practical …

Online cancer communities as informatics intervention for social support: conceptualization, characterization, and impact

S Zhang, EOC Bantum, J Owen… - Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Objectives: The Internet and social media are revolutionizing how social support is
exchanged and perceived, making online health communities (OHCs) one of the most …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing and predicting user participations in online health communities: a social support perspective

X Wang, K Zhao, N Street - Journal of medical Internet research, 2017 - jmir.org
Background: Online health communities (OHCs) have become a major source of social
support for people with health problems. Members of OHCs interact online with similar peers …

A systematic literature review of machine learning in online personal health data

Z Yin, LM Sulieman, BA Malin - Journal of the American Medical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective User-generated content (UGC) in online environments provides opportunities to
learn an individual's health status outside of clinical settings. However, the nature of UGC …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal analysis of discussion topics in an online breast cancer community using convolutional neural networks

S Zhang, E Grave, E Sklar, N Elhadad - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2017 - Elsevier
Identifying topics of discussions in online health communities (OHC) is critical to various
information extraction applications, but can be difficult because topics of OHC content are …

Aspiring to unintended consequences of natural language processing: a review of recent developments in clinical and consumer-generated text processing

D Demner-Fushman, N Elhadad - Yearbook of medical …, 2016 - thieme-connect.com
Objectives: This paper reviews work over the past two years in Natural Language
Processing (NLP) applied to clinical and consumer-generated texts. Methods: We included …

[HTML][HTML] Peer Support for Chronic Pain in Online Health Communities: Quantitative Study on the Dynamics of Social Interactions in a Chronic Pain Forum

A Necaise, MJ Amon - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024 - jmir.org
Background Peer support for chronic pain is increasingly taking place on social media via
social networking communities. Several theories on the development and maintenance of …

A park or a highway: Overcoming tensions in designing for socio-emotional and informational needs in online health communities

D Nakikj, L Mamykina - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Over the years online health communities (OHCs) have become an important source of
information regarding health management and a place for social interaction and emotional …

Unconscious or conscious? The impacts of habit and social support receipt on older adults' continued participation in online health communities

D Ma, M Zuo - Aslib Journal of Information Management, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Online health communities (OHCs) can be complementary to healthcare systems to
improve the health behaviors of older adults with chronic diseases. This study aims to …

Leveraging cues from person-generated health data for peer matching in online communities

AL Hartzler, MN Taylor, A Park, T Griffiths… - Journal of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective Online health communities offer a diverse peer support base, yet users can
struggle to identify suitable peer mentors as these communities grow. To facilitate mentoring …