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Codeveloping and Evaluating a Campaign to Reduce Dementia Misconceptions on Twitter: Machine Learning Study

Codeveloping and Evaluating a Campaign to Reduce Dementia Misconceptions on Twitter: Machine Learning Study

We aimed to codevelop a supervised ML model that can detect dementia misconceptions on Twitter with dementia care partners central to the analytical pipeline and to co-design and then deploy an awareness campaign on Twitter to address these misconceptions. Furthermore, we aimed to use the ML model to evaluate the effectiveness of our campaign in reducing misconceptions and track global events that affected misconceptions during the campaign period.

Sinan Erturk, Georgie Hudson, Sonja M Jansli, Daniel Morris, Clarissa M Odoi, Emma Wilson, Angela Clayton-Turner, Vanessa Bray, Gill Yourston, Andrew Cornwall, Nicholas Cummins, Til Wykes, Sagar Jilka

JMIR Infodemiology 2022;2(2):e36871

Investigation of Carers’ Perspectives of Dementia Misconceptions on Twitter: Focus Group Study

Investigation of Carers’ Perspectives of Dementia Misconceptions on Twitter: Focus Group Study

It also has a high prevalence of stigma towards dementia [10] and therefore lends itself to investigations into misconceptions. Given the multiple negative consequences, it is surprising that little is known about the prevalence of public misconceptions on social media. Improving the overall knowledge base for dementia, especially a detailed understanding of the types of misconceptions, can provide a baseline from which to challenge misconceptions and stigma [11].

Georgie Hudson, Sonja M Jansli, Sinan Erturk, Daniel Morris, Clarissa M Odoi, Angela Clayton-Turner, Vanessa Bray, Gill Yourston, Doreen Clouden, David Proudfoot, Andrew Cornwall, Claire Waldron, Til Wykes, Sagar Jilka

JMIR Aging 2022;5(1):e30388

Conversations and Misconceptions About Chemotherapy in Arabic Tweets: Content Analysis

Conversations and Misconceptions About Chemotherapy in Arabic Tweets: Content Analysis

Tweets under the theme “misconceptions” were further analyzed to capture the most common misconceptions, as described in detail in Table 4. Falsified and unrealistic side effects of chemotherapy were the most common misconceptions (1271/2084, 60.9%) in the studied data set. The other misconceptions were that chemotherapy causes cancer to spread (282/2084, 13.5%) and that chemotherapy has no therapeutic benefit (214/2084, 10.3%).

Abdulrahman Alghamdi, Khalid Abumelha, Jawad Allarakia, Ahmed Al-Shehri

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(7):e13979