Investigating Canadian Public Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates with a Nested Analysis Framework.
Stud Health Technol Inform
; 302: 783-787, 2023 May 18.
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em Inglês
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2327216
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Social media is an important medium for studying public attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Canada, and Reddit network communities are a good source for this.METHODS:
This study applied a "nested analysis" framework. We collected 20378 Reddit comments via the Pushshift API and developed a BERT-based binary classification model to screen for relevance to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. We then used a Guided Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model on relevant comments to extract key topics and assign each comment to its most relevant topic.RESULTS:
There were 3179 (15.6%) relevant and 17199 (84.4%) irrelevant comments. Our BERT-based model achieved 91% accuracy trained with 300 Reddit comments after 60 epochs. The Guided LDA model had an optimal coherence score of 0.471 with four topics travel, government, certification, and institutions. Human evaluation of the Guided LDA model showed an 83% accuracy in assigning samples to their topic groups.CONCLUSION:
We develop a screening tool for filtering and analyzing Reddit comments on COVID-19 vaccine mandates through topic modelling. Future research could develop more effective seed word-choosing and evaluation methods to reduce the need for human judgment.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
Bases de dados internacionais
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Mídias Sociais
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo experimental
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Estudo prognóstico
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Ensaios controlados aleatorizados
Tópicos:
Vacinas
Limite:
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
América do Norte
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Stud Health Technol Inform
Assunto da revista:
Informática Médica
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Pesquisa em Serviços de Saúde
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Shti230266
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