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Table 3 Top 15 most frequent terms for the 20 detected topics

From: Discovering thematic change and evolution of utilizing social media for healthcare research

Topic

Potential theme

Top high frequency terms

14

YouTube analysis

YouTube; quality; YouTube video; viewer; score; video recording; patient; health information; misleading; educational; surgery; comment; viewed; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; search term

18

Sex event

men who have sex with men; HIV; adolescent; sexual; suicide; youth; young adult; sex; intervention; sexual behavior; prevention; man; HIV testing; sexual health; partner

10

Web-based medical education

student; learning; medical education; teaching; course; nursing; technology; resident; nursing student; nurse; educational; wiki; web-2; medical student; university

5

Facebook usage

adolescent; Facebook; social networking site; young adult; depression; social networking; student; college student; Facebook use; friend; interpersonal relation; survey and questionnaire; mental health; motivation; anxiety

1

Twitter usage

twitter; tweet; post; account; message; twitter use; Facebook; follower; engagement; hashtag; conference; organization; urology; public health; meeting

16

Alcohol & drug

alcohol; e-cigarette; marketing; tobacco; smoking; exposure; message; drug; drinking; youth; product; advertising; adolescent; alcohol use; image

15

Twitter data mining

twitter; tweet; adverse drug reaction; sentiment; drug; big data; data mining; post; machine learning; sentiment analysis; algorithm; natural language processing; pharmacovigilance; social media data; surveillance

20

Exercise, food, and weight

intervention; physical activity; adolescent; program; children; obesity; weight loss; parent; control; Facebook; exercise; food; randomized controlled trial; social support; weight

12

Medicine & clinical

hospital; patient; surgeon; physician; rating; health care; surgery; surgical; quality; score; care; radiologist; marketing; breastfeeding; satisfaction

2

Social support

social support; online community; post; forum; Facebook; message; qualitative research; comment; online health community; parent; woman; narrative; virtual community; family; perception

8

Tech-assisted health

technology; application; health care; web-2; health promotion; public health; systematic review; service; digital; social networking; care; information and communication technology; framework; project; evaluation

6

Altmetric

china; citation; journal; Chinese; scale; Altmetric; item; science; metric; scientific; attention; language; reliability; publication; scientist

7

Smoking cessation

Facebook; recruitment; woman; pregnancy; smoking cessation; smoking; campaign; smoker; intervention; cost; advertisement; young adult; recruiting; engagement; recruit

11

Emergency surveillance

public health; disaster; media; news; outbreak; mass media; event; emergency; epidemic; surveillance; Ebola; crisis; disease; information dissemination; message

9

Disease treatment and management

patient; treatment; diabetes; quality of life; clinical; disease; self management; pain; inflammatory bowel disease; care; management; asthma; epilepsy; medication; symptom

17

Vaccine

vaccination; vaccine; human papillomavirus; children; autism spectrum disorder; HPV vaccine; immunization; parent; united states; attitude; burn; infant; comment; antibiotic; autism

4

Cancer & mental disease

cancer; health information; patient; mental health; breast cancer; schizophrenia; caregiver; awareness; internet use; health related; attitude; information seeking behavior; cancer survivor; dementia; care

19

Health-care through social media

patient; physician; health care; Facebook; blog; twitter; care; WhatsApp; smartphone; blogging; dermatology; provider; social network; social media use; healthcare provider

3

Media use by medical staff

Facebook; privacy; student; professionalism; ethical; social networking; social networking site; medical student; physician; ethic; perception; confidentiality; faculty; guideline; policy

13

Social-network analysis

network; social network; dynamic; politic; social networking; political; theoretical model; online social network; event; attention; diffusion; friend; twitter; algorithm; social behavior