Identification of Cancer Survivors Living with PTSD on Social Media

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21:264:1468-1469. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190488.

Abstract

The trauma of cancer often leaves survivors with PTSD. Tweets posted on Twitter usually reflect the users' psychological state, which is convenient for data collection. However, Twitter also contains a mix of noisy and genuine tweets. The process of manually identifying genuine tweets is expensive and time-consuming. Thus, we propose a knowledge transfer technique to filter out unrelated tweets. Our experiments show that our model outperforms the baselines.

Keywords: Cancer survivors; post-traumatic; social media; stress disorders.

MeSH terms

  • Cancer Survivors*
  • Data Collection
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms*
  • Social Media*
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic*