Table 2 Social media data characteristics
From: Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review
Social media data characteristics (n = 70) | Count (%) | |
|---|---|---|
Number of social media sources included by study authors | 1 | 38 (54.3%) |
2 | 10 (14.3%) | |
3 | 8 (11.4%) | |
4 | 3 (4.3%) | |
> 5 | 7 (10.0%) | |
Not reported | 4 (5.7%) | |
Type of social media sites | Patient-specific | 35 (50.0%) |
General population | 27 (38.6%) | |
Both patient-specific and general population | 7 (10.0%) | |
Not reported | 1 (1.4%) | |
Region of origin of the social media posts | USA | 5 (7.1%) |
Spain | 2 (2.9%) | |
Germany | 1 (1.4%) | |
50+ countries | 1 (1.4%) | |
USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand | 1 (1.4%) | |
France | 1 (1.4%) | |
UK, North America, Australasia | 1 (1.4%) | |
Not reported | 58 (82.9%) | |
Language of the social media posts | English | 60 (85.7%) |
Spanish | 2 (2.9%) | |
French | 2 (2.9%) | |
German | 1 (1.4%) | |
Serbian | 1 (1.4%) | |
Multilingual | 2 (2.9%) | |
Not reported | 2 (2.9%) | |
Method employed to collect social media data | Web crawling/ spidering software | 19 (27.1%) |
API of the host site | 14 (20.0%) | |
Keyword search | 7 (10.0%) | |
Multiple methods | 4 (5.7%) | |
Other methods | 13 (18.6%) | |
Not Reported | 13 (18.6%) | |
Duration (years) of social media data | Median (Q1, Q3) | 1.13 (0.5, 7.13) |
Not reported | 34 (48.6%) | |
Number of social media posts retrieved | Median (Q1, Q3) | 42,594 (4608, 711,562) |
Not reported | 5 (7.1%) | |