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Detection and Analysis of Drug Misuses. A Study Based on Social Media Messages

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Pharmacology, July 2018
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Title
Detection and Analysis of Drug Misuses. A Study Based on Social Media Messages
Published in
Frontiers in Pharmacology, July 2018
DOI 10.3389/fphar.2018.00791
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Authors

Elise Bigeard, Natalia Grabar, Frantz Thiessard

Abstract

Drug misuse may happen when patients do not follow the prescriptions and do actions which lead to potentially harmful situations, such as intakes of incorrect dosage (overuse or underuse) or drug use for indications different from those prescribed. Although such situations are dangerous, patients usually do not report the misuse of drugs to their physicians. Hence, other sources of information are necessary for studying these issues. We assume that online health fora can provide such information and propose to exploit them. The general purpose of our work is the automatic detection and classification of drug misuses by analysing user-generated data in French social media. To this end, we propose a multi-step method, the main steps of which are: (1) indexing of messages with extended vocabulary adapted to social media writing; (2) creation of typology of drug misuses; and (3) automatic classification of messages according to whether they contain drug misuses or not. We present the results obtained at different steps and discuss them. The proposed method permit to detect the misuses with up to 0.773 F-measure.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 34 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 21%
Student > Master 5 15%
Other 3 9%
Professor 2 6%
Lecturer 2 6%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 12 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 18%
Computer Science 5 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Decision Sciences 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 15 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2018.
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#18,646,262
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#8,443
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#254,253
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#210
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