What do patients learn about psychotropic medications on the web? A natural language processing study.

Journal: Journal of affective disorders
PMID: 31539672

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Low rates of medication adherence remain a major challenge across psychiatry. In part, this likely reflects patient concerns about safety and adverse effects, accurate or otherwise. We therefore sought to characterize online information about common psychiatric medications in terms of positive and negative sentiment.

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  • Kamber L Hart
    Center for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
  • Roy H Perlis
    Center for Quantitative Health, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Thomas H McCoy
    Center for Quantitative Health, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: thmccoy@partners.org.

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