Comparison of Voluntary versus Mandatory Vaccine Discussions in Online Health Communities: A Text Analytics Approach

dc.contributor.authorAlazazi, Massara
dc.contributor.authorWang, Bin
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-24T19:08:07Z
dc.date.available2020-12-24T19:08:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-05
dc.description.abstractVaccines are vital health interventions. However, they are controversial and some people support them while others reject them. Social media discussion and big data are a rich source to understand people’s insights about different vaccines and the related topics that concern most of them. This study aims to explore the online discussions about mandatory and voluntary vaccines using text analysis techniques. Reddit social platform is popular in online health discussion and thus data from Reddit is analyzed. The results show that different aspects are discussed for different types of vaccines. The discussion of mandatory vaccines is more interactive and is focused on the risks associated with them. Voluntary vaccines’ discussion is focused on their effectiveness and whether to get them or not. The study have important implications for health agencies and researchers as well as for healthcare providers and caregivers.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2021.096
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/70707
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectText Analytics
dc.subjectcontent analysis
dc.subjectmandatory vaccines
dc.subjectonline health communities
dc.subjecttopic modeling
dc.subjectvoluntary vaccines
dc.titleComparison of Voluntary versus Mandatory Vaccine Discussions in Online Health Communities: A Text Analytics Approach
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