BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on the daily routines of individuals and has influenced various facets of society, including healthcare systems, economy, education, and more. With lockdown and social distancing measures, p...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jun 1, 2025
Computational approaches to predicting mental health conditions in social media have been substantially explored in the past years. Multiple reviews have been published on this topic, providing the community with comprehensive accounts of the researc...
Dental traumatology : official publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology
Jun 1, 2025
BACKGROUND/AIM: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have become increasingly prevalent in recent years as potential sources of online healthcare information for patients when making medical/dental decisions. This study assessed the readability, qua...
Weibo, one of the most widely used social media platforms in China, sees a vast number of users expressing their opinions and emotional tendencies. Conducting sentiment analysis on Weibo posts using natural language processing techniques is crucial f...
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
May 22, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco companies use social media to bypass marketing restrictions. Studies show that exposure to tobacco promotion on social media influences subsequent smoking behavior, yet it is challenging to monitor such content. We developed an ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study explores how well large language models (like the kind that powers ChatGPT) can analyze online conversations about disability rights. We specifically looked at whether these models could: 1) identify if tweets about people with disabilitie...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Adverse drug event (ADE) detection in social media texts poses significant challenges due to the informal nature of the text and the limited availability of annotations. The scarcity of ADE named entity recognition (NER) datasets for social media hin...
OBJECTIVES: Globally, there has been a rapid increase in the availability of online gambling. As online gambling has increased in popularity, there has been a corresponding increase in online communities that discuss gambling. The movement of gamblin...
BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic in the United States remains a major public health concern, with opioid-related deaths increasing more than 8-fold since 1999. Chronic pain, affecting 1 in 5 US adults, is a key contributor to opioid use and misuse. Wh...
BACKGROUND: Stigma associated with HIV/AIDS continues to be a major barrier to prevention, management, and care. HIV stigma can negatively influence health behaviors. Surveys of the general public in Japan also demonstrated substantial gaps in knowle...
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