TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing Informal Caregiving Expression in Social Media
AU - Al-Bahrani, Reda
AU - Danilovich, Margaret K.
AU - Liao, Wei Keng
AU - Choudhary, Alok
AU - Agrawal, Ankit
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education and in part by the following grants: NSF award CCF-1409601; DOE awards DE-SC0007456, DESC0014330, and the Northwestern Data Science Initiative.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/15
Y1 - 2017/12/15
N2 - Caregiving is the act of providing assistance to an individual unable to perfom some daily living activities. Caregiving can be either paid or unpaid. An informal caregiver is an unpaid caregiver to an older, sick, or disabled family member or friend on a daily basis. Informal caregiving is associated with increased physical, mental, and emotional stressors contributing to poor health outcomes, caregiver burnout, and increased risk for institutionalization of the older adult care recipient. Informal caregivers manage their stressors through supportive services such as support groups or respite care, but little is known about how they use social media to share their caregiving experience. No work to our knowledge has investigated caregiver use of Twitter to share the caregiving experience.We collect and analyze tweets related to Alzheimer's and Dementia. We present some insights on sentiment of the tweets, statistics of United States geographical locations of the tweeters, and the relationships of the care recipients. In our analysis we found that the majority of tweet sentiment was negative. Moreover, female care recipients are mentioned at a higher frequency than male care recipients in the tweets.
AB - Caregiving is the act of providing assistance to an individual unable to perfom some daily living activities. Caregiving can be either paid or unpaid. An informal caregiver is an unpaid caregiver to an older, sick, or disabled family member or friend on a daily basis. Informal caregiving is associated with increased physical, mental, and emotional stressors contributing to poor health outcomes, caregiver burnout, and increased risk for institutionalization of the older adult care recipient. Informal caregivers manage their stressors through supportive services such as support groups or respite care, but little is known about how they use social media to share their caregiving experience. No work to our knowledge has investigated caregiver use of Twitter to share the caregiving experience.We collect and analyze tweets related to Alzheimer's and Dementia. We present some insights on sentiment of the tweets, statistics of United States geographical locations of the tweeters, and the relationships of the care recipients. In our analysis we found that the majority of tweet sentiment was negative. Moreover, female care recipients are mentioned at a higher frequency than male care recipients in the tweets.
KW - Alzheimer's and Dementia
KW - Sentiment analysis
KW - Social Media
KW - Tweet Analysis
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U2 - 10.1109/ICDMW.2017.50
DO - 10.1109/ICDMW.2017.50
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044022636
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW
SP - 342
EP - 349
BT - Proceeding - 17th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2017
A2 - Gottumukkala, Raju
A2 - Karypis, George
A2 - Raghavan, Vijay
A2 - Wu, Xindong
A2 - Miele, Lucio
A2 - Aluru, Srinivas
A2 - Ning, Xia
A2 - Dong, Guozhu
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 17th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2017
Y2 - 18 November 2017 through 21 November 2017
ER -