Exploring Social Media Posts on Lifestyle Behaviors: Sentiment and Content Analysis.

IF 3.5 Q1 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
JMIR infodemiology Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI:10.2196/65835
Yan Yee Yip, Mohd Ridzwan Yaakub, Mohd Makmor-Bakry, Muhammad Iqbal Abu Latiffi, Wei Wen Chong
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Abstract

Background: There has been an increase in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases in Malaysia. This can be prevented and managed through the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors, including not smoking, avoiding alcohol consumption, maintaining a balanced diet, and being physically active. The growing importance of using social media to deliver information on healthy behaviors has led health care professionals (HCPs) to lead these efforts. To ensure effective delivery of information on healthy lifestyle behaviors, HCPs should begin by understanding users' current opinions about these behaviors and whether the users are receptive to recommended health practices. Nevertheless, there has been limited research conducted in Malaysia that aims to identify the sentiments and content of posts, as well as how well users' perceptions align with recommended health practices.

Objective: This study aims to examine social media posts related to various lifestyle behaviors, by using a combination of sentiment analysis to analyze users' sentiments and manual content analysis to explore the content of the posts and how well users' perceptions align with recommended health practices.

Methods: Using keywords based on lifestyle behaviors, posts originating from X (formerly known as Twitter) and published in Malaysia between November and December 2022 were scraped for sentiment analysis. Posts with positive and negative sentiments were randomly selected for content analysis. A codebook was developed to code the selected posts according to content and alignment of users' perceptions with recommended health practices.

Results: A total of 3320 posts were selected for sentiment analysis. Significant associations were observed between sentiment class and lifestyle behaviors (χ26=67.64; P<.001), with positive sentiments higher than negative sentiments for all lifestyle behaviors. Findings from content analysis of 1328 posts revealed that most of the posts were about users' narratives (492/1328), general statements (203/1328), and planned actions toward the conduct of their behavior (196/1328). More than half of tobacco-, diet-, and activity-related posts were aligned with recommended health practices, whereas most of the alcohol-related posts were not aligned with recommended health practices (63/112).

Conclusions: As most of the alcohol-related posts did not align with recommended health practices, the findings reflect a need for HCPs to increase their delivery of health information on alcohol consumption. It is also important to ensure the ongoing health promotion of the other 3 lifestyle behaviors on social media, while continuing to monitor the discussions made by social media users.

探索关于生活方式行为的社交媒体帖子:情感和内容分析。
背景:马来西亚的非传染性疾病患病率有所上升。这可以通过采取健康的生活方式来预防和管理,包括不吸烟、避免饮酒、保持均衡饮食和积极锻炼身体。使用社交媒体传递健康行为信息的重要性日益增加,这促使卫生保健专业人员(HCPs)领导这些努力。为了确保健康生活方式行为信息的有效传递,卫生服务提供者应首先了解用户目前对这些行为的看法,以及用户是否接受推荐的健康做法。然而,在马来西亚进行了有限的研究,旨在确定帖子的情绪和内容,以及用户的看法与建议的卫生做法的一致程度。目的:本研究旨在研究与各种生活方式行为相关的社交媒体帖子,通过结合使用情感分析来分析用户的情绪,并通过手动内容分析来探索帖子的内容以及用户的感知与推荐的健康实践的一致程度。方法:使用基于生活方式行为的关键词,抓取2022年11月至12月在马来西亚发布的来自X(前身为Twitter)的帖子进行情感分析。随机选取正面和负面情绪的帖子进行内容分析。编写了一个代码本,根据内容和用户的看法与建议的保健做法的一致性对选定的帖子进行编码。结果:共选取3320篇帖子进行情绪分析。情绪等级与生活方式行为有显著相关(χ26=67.64;结论:由于大多数与酒精相关的岗位与推荐的健康实践不一致,研究结果反映了卫生服务提供者需要增加他们对酒精消费健康信息的传递。同样重要的是,要确保在社交媒体上持续宣传其他三种生活方式行为,同时继续监测社交媒体用户的讨论。
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