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- Figure 1. Key themes identified and representative tweets of each theme
- Figure 2. Emergent themes in cancer in primary care tweets by user type: consumers, media, healthcare professionals, and health organisations
- Figure 3. Top three stories that generated the greatest engagement with Twitter users
Tables
User type Users, n (%) Tweets, n (%) Consumer 413 (25.6) 457 (21.5) Health organisation 354 (22.0) 581 (27.3) Healthcare professional 250 (15.5) 297 (14.0) Media 229 (14.2) 350 (16.4) Other 202 (12.5) 258 (12.1) Unknown 163 (10.2) 186 (8.7) Total 1611 (100) 2129 (100) Location Tweets, n UK 1078 Unknown 370 US 308 Australia 139 Canada 74 Ireland 33 New Zealand 12 Spain 11 India, Nigeria, South Africa 10 Greece, Pakistan 8 Egypt 6 Belgium, France, Germany 4 Colombia, Indonesia, Japan 3 China, Italy, Nepal, Peru, Saudi Arabia 2 Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, Uganda, Zimbabwe 1 Rows with more than one country indicate those countries produced the same number of tweets.
Sentiment score Average score User type -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Consumer 1 2 3 18 44 120 192 57 17 3 0 0 0 –0.42 HCP 0 0 0 7 9 50 131 71 18 9 2 0 0 0.18 Health organisation 0 0 2 16 44 117 278 89 24 9 1 0 0 –0.16 Media 0 0 3 6 26 71 176 59 8 1 0 0 0 –0.21 Other 0 0 0 5 19 46 130 42 6 2 0 0 0 –0.16 Unknown 0 0 5 4 11 35 112 31 7 0 0 0 0 –0.21 HCP = healthcare professional.
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