Detecting Signals of Associations between Dietary Supplement Use and Mental Disorders from Twitter

Yefeng Wang; Yunpeng Zhao; Jiang Bian; Rui Zhang

doi:10.1109/ICHI-W.2018.00016

Detecting Signals of Associations between Dietary Supplement Use and Mental Disorders from Twitter

Yefeng Wang, Yunpeng Zhao, Jiang Bian, Rui Zhang

Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems

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In this study, we attempted to detect signals of association between dietary supplement use and mental disorders from Twitter. We collected tweets ranging from 2016 to 2017 which mention five dietary supplements. A case cohort of 257 users were identified by adapting a natural language processing method with further manually verified to have taken one supplement. We then randomly selected 257 users who had not taken any dietary supplement as the control cohort and compared the sentiment and mental health signals of their tweets to the case cohort. We have observed significant differences in the sad, anxious, and negative sentiment between the two cohorts. These results have shown that Twitter is a potential source for detecting signals of association between dietary supplement use and anxiety disorders, depression, and mood disorders.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	53-54
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538667774
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI-W.2018.00016
State	Published - Jul 16 2018
Event	6th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018 - New York, United States Duration: Jun 4 2018 → Jun 7 2018

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Other	6th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	6/4/18 → 6/7/18

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This research was supported by National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health Award (R01AT009457) (PI: Zhang).

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© 2018 IEEE.

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Twitter
mental health signals
natural language processing
social media

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Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Bian, J., & Zhang, R. (2018). Detecting Signals of Associations between Dietary Supplement Use and Mental Disorders from Twitter. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018 (pp. 53-54). Article 8411682 (Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI-W.2018.00016

Detecting Signals of Associations between Dietary Supplement Use and Mental Disorders from Twitter. / Wang, Yefeng; Zhao, Yunpeng; Bian, Jiang et al.
Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 53-54 8411682 (Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018).

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Wang, Y, Zhao, Y, Bian, J & Zhang, R 2018, Detecting Signals of Associations between Dietary Supplement Use and Mental Disorders from Twitter. in Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018., 8411682, Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 53-54, 6th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018, New York, United States, 6/4/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI-W.2018.00016

Wang Y, Zhao Y, Bian J, Zhang R. Detecting Signals of Associations between Dietary Supplement Use and Mental Disorders from Twitter. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2018. p. 53-54. 8411682. (Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018). doi: 10.1109/ICHI-W.2018.00016

Wang, Yefeng ; Zhao, Yunpeng ; Bian, Jiang et al. / Detecting Signals of Associations between Dietary Supplement Use and Mental Disorders from Twitter. Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. pp. 53-54 (Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics Workshops, ICHI-W 2018).

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