Facebook and Twitter vaccine sentiment in response to measles outbreaks

Social media posts regarding measles vaccination were classified as pro-vaccination, expressing vaccine hesitancy, uncertain, or irrelevant. Spearman correlations with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-reported measles cases and differenced smoothed cumulative case counts over this period were reported (using time series bootstrap confidence intervals). A total of 58,078 Facebook posts and 82,993 tweets were identified from 4 January 2009 to 27 August 2016. Pro-vaccination posts were correlated with the US weekly reported cases (Facebook: Spearman correlation 0.22 (95% confidence interval: 0.09 to 0.34), Twitter: 0.21 (95% confidence interval: 0.06 to 0.34)). Vaccine-hesitant posts, however, were uncorrelated with measles cases in the United States (Facebook: 0.01 (95% confidence interval: -0.13 to 0.14), Twitter: 0.0011 (95% confidence interval: -0.12 to 0.12)). These findings may result from more consistent social media engagement by individuals expressing vaccine hesitancy, contrasted with media- or event-driven episodic interest on the part of individuals favoring current policy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Health informatics journal - 25(2019), 3 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 1116-1132

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Deiner, Michael S [VerfasserIn]
Fathy, Cherie [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Niemeyer, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Ramirez, David [VerfasserIn]
Ackley, Sarah F [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Fengchen [VerfasserIn]
Lietman, Thomas M [VerfasserIn]
Porco, Travis C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Measles
Patient compliance
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Social media
Treatment refusal
Vaccination

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.07.2020

Date Revised 01.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/1460458217740723

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM278145752