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Sentiment analysis of disease-related tweets helps identify patients\u2019 experiences of skin disease.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To analyze the expressed sentiments in tweets related to alopecia areata (AA), hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), and psoriasis (PsO) in comparison to fibromyalgia (FM).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This is a cross-sectional analysis of Twitter users\u2019 expressed sentiment on AA, HS, PsO, and FM. Tweets related to the diseases of interest were identified with keywords and hashtags for one month (April, 2022) using the Twitter standard application programming interface (API). Text, account types, and numbers of retweets and likes were collected. The sentiment analysis was performed by the R \u201ctidytext\u201d package using the AFINN lexicon.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 1,505 tweets were randomly extracted, of which 243 (16.15%) referred to AA, 186 (12.36%) to HS, 510 (33.89%) to PsO, and 566 (37.61%) to FM. The mean sentiment score was \u22120.239 \u00b1 2.90. AA, HS, and PsO had similar sentiment scores (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.482). Although all skin conditions were associated with a negative polarity, their average was significantly less negative than FM (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.0001). Tweets from private accounts were more negative, especially for AA (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.0082). Words reflecting patients\u2019 psychological states varied in different diseases. \u201cAnxiety\u201d was observed in posts on AA and FM but not posts on HS and PsO, while \u201ccrying\u201d was frequently used in posts on HS. There was no definite correlation between the sentiment score and the number of retweets or likes, although negative AA tweets from public accounts received more retweets (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.03511) and likes (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.0228).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The use of Twitter sentiment analysis is a promising method to document patients\u2019 experience of skin diseases, which may improve patient care through bridging misconceptions and knowledge gaps between patients and healthcare professionals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmed.2022.996378","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,31]],"date-time":"2022-10-31T03:16:33Z","timestamp":1667186193000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Sentiment analysis of tweets on alopecia areata, hidradenitis suppurativa, and psoriasis: Revealing the patient experience"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Irene Tai-Lin","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sin-Ei","family":"Juang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Steven T.","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christine","family":"Ko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kevin Sheng-Kai","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0264794","article-title":"Emotion diffusion effect: Negative sentiment COVID-19 tweets of public organizations attract more responses from followers. 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