Table 1 Disease terms message analysis
Message content | |
|---|---|
Lassa fever | The term is only applied in the context of news-related messages. |
Heart disease | The term is used to express health concerns in news reports, raise awareness and for personal statements. |
Substance abuse | The messages contain news article titles, personal tweets and awareness tweets. These messages also include job advertisements which were not filtered by the previous steps. |
Mental disorder | The term is used in personal messages and in tweets related to awareness. |
Eating disorder | The messages are related to news stories and personal opinions. |
Kidney disease | The term is mostly used in news stories, to a lesser extent it is applied in personal tweets. |
Female genital mutilation | All messages correspond to news articles. |
Heart failure | The majority of the messages correspond to news articles and job advertisements unfiltered by the previous steps. The remaining messages are personal statements from the users. |
Brain damage | The messages include news stories and personal tweets in which the disease term is applied in a clinical sense. The remaining messages use a term with a non-clinical meaning. |
Spinal cord injury | The term is mostly applied in the context of news-related messages and job advertisements. The remaining tweets correspond to personal statements. |