aceCharacterizing Cancer Symptom Experiences and Related Psychosocial Concerns Through Chinese Social Media Narratives: Computational Text Analysis
Background: Patients with cancer frequently experience complex and multidimensional symptom burdens. Standardized patient-reported outcome measures provide structured approaches to symptom assessment but may not capture the full range of symptom-related and psychosocial concerns expressed in patients' narratives. Patient-generated social media data offer a complementary source for examining how these concerns are expressed online. Objective: This study aimed to characterize cancer symptom-related narratives in C…
LLM annotation and topic modeling of patient posts identified symptom patterns, coping strategies, and 13 experiential themes that may be underrepresented in conventional symptom assessment.
Differences in platform composition, uneven temporal coverage, and nonrepresentativeness of social media users limit generalizability, and the clinical utility of using such data in routine symptom assessment still requires evaluation.
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- Peer-reviewedJournal of Medical Internet Research2026-10-20
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2172, v1: “Characterizing Cancer Symptom Experiences and Related Psychosocial Concerns Through Chinese Social Media Narratives: Computational Text Analysis.” Truvace, 2026-10-22. /record/TRV-2026-2172 (accessed at citation time). sha256 1c82e0f20253880d…
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