Exploring Health Consumers’ HPV Vaccine Awareness from Reddit

Poster Number: P136
Presentation Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM

Abstract Keywords: Cancer Prevention, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Real-World Evidence Generation, Health Equity, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology
Primary Track: Applications
Programmatic Theme: Consumer Health Informatics

The purpose of this study is to better understand lay health consumers’ awareness of HPV vaccines focusing on risks and benefits. Employing text mining techniques, associations among terms with those terms that represent health consumers’ awareness of the HPV vaccines were explored. Overall, awareness of the purpose of the HPV vaccination was low.

Speaker(s):
Soojung Jo, PhD RN
Purdue University

Soojung Jo, PhD RN
Purdue University