Can social media monitoring help identify the next EVALI? An examination of Reddit posts about vitamin E acetate and Dank Vapes.
Can social media monitoring help identify the next EVALI? An examination of Reddit posts about vitamin E acetate and Dank Vapes.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109193
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发表时间：
2022-01-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Kim AE
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作者：
Pepper JK;Zitney LV;Preiss A;Bukowski T;Szczypka G;Kim AE
科学家们发现，维生素E醋酸酯（VEA）和“Dank Vapes”（一种假冒的四氢大麻酚[THC] vaping产品）是2019-2020年电子烟或vaping产品使用相关肺损伤（EVALI）爆发的原因。在社交媒体上，发布关于vaping或THC的人讨论了EVALI的原因。我们研究了Reddit上的对话是否可能是疫情爆发的早期信号。我们收集了从2018年3月到2020年2月的Reddit帖子，这些帖子与VEA或Dank Vapes有关。我们确定了帖子数量的峰值，检查了帖子内容，并使用自然语言处理来识别帖子最具特征的术语。在EVALI之前几乎没有关于VEA的帖子。随后，出现了两个高峰，都是指媒体报道的将VEA与EVALI联系起来的科学发现。在EVALI之前，讨论经常提到对Dank Vapes合法性的担忧;帖子的峰值与科学发现或媒体对这些发现的报道基本无关。VEA帖子最具特征的术语是与EVALI相关的; Dank Vapes帖子最具特征的术语是关于质量或合法性的。虽然关于VEA和Dank Vapes的帖子并没有预测到疫情，但公共卫生界可以利用社交媒体鼓励使用Vape或使用THC的人报告未来的健康问题（例如，通过FDA的安全报告门户）。研究人员和监管机构还可以利用社交媒体来了解潜在的问题产品，如Dank Vapes，是否在使用这些产品的个人中有过担忧的历史。
Scientists identified vitamin E acetate (VEA) and “Dank Vapes” (a fake brand of tetrahydrocannabinol [THC] vaping products) as contributors to the 2019–2020 outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). On social media, people who post about vaping or THC discussed the causes of EVALI. We examined whether Reddit conversations may have served as early signals of the outbreak. We collected Reddit posts from March 2018 to February 2020 on vaping- and THC-related subreddits that mentioned VEA or Dank Vapes. We identified peaks in post volume, examined post content, and used natural language processing to identify terms most characteristic of posts. There were almost no posts about VEA before EVALI. Subsequently, there were two peaks, both referencing media coverage of scientific findings that linked VEA to EVALI. Discussion regularly referenced concerns about the legitimacy of Dank Vapes before EVALI; peaks in posts were largely unrelated to scientific findings or media coverage of those findings. The terms most characteristic of VEA posts were EVALI-related; those most characteristic of Dank Vapes posts were about quality or legitimacy. Although posts about VEA and Dank Vapes did not predict the outbreak, the public health community could use social media to encourage people who vape or use THC to report future health concerns (e.g., through FDA’s Safety Reporting Portal). Researchers and regulators could also use social media to see if potentially problematic products, such as Dank Vapes, have a history of concern among individuals who use those products.
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