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“5 Mins of Uncomfyness Is Better than Dealing with Cancer 4 a Lifetime”: an Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Dialogue on Twitter

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Cancer Education, November 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#48 of 1,182)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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27 X users

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Title
“5 Mins of Uncomfyness Is Better than Dealing with Cancer 4 a Lifetime”: an Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Dialogue on Twitter
Published in
Journal of Cancer Education, November 2012
DOI 10.1007/s13187-012-0432-2
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Authors

Courtney R. Lyles, Andrea López, Rena Pasick, Urmimala Sarkar

Abstract

Twitter.com is a "micro-blogging" website. Although Twitter use is growing rapidly, little is known about health behavior discussions on this site, even though a majority of messages are publicly available. We retrieved publicly available Twitter messages during a 5-week period in early 2012, searching separately for the terms "Pap smear" and "mammogram." We used content analysis to code each 140-character message, generating a separate coding framework for each cancer screening term and calculating the frequencies of comments. Using the brief account description, we also coded the author as individual, organization, or news media outlet. There were 203 Pap smear and 271 mammogram messages coded, over three fourths of which were from individual accounts. Overall, 22 % of Pap smear messages and 25 % of mammogram messages discussed personal experiences, including attending appointments, negative sentiment about the procedure, and results. Other messages from both individuals and organizations (8 % Pap smear, 18 % mammogram) promoted screening. About one quarter of the messages expressed personal experiences with cancer screening. This demonstrates that Twitter can be a rich source of information and could be used to design new health-related interventions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 139 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 18%
Student > Master 25 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 11%
Researcher 15 10%
Student > Bachelor 11 8%
Other 30 21%
Unknown 20 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 27%
Social Sciences 25 17%
Psychology 11 8%
Computer Science 9 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 32 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 29 October 2013.
All research outputs
#2,051,918
of 23,582,490 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Cancer Education
#48
of 1,182 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,289
of 185,275 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Cancer Education
#2
of 5 outputs
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