Glossary
- CHV:
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Consumer health vocabulary
- LIWC:
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Linguistic inquiry and word count
- NLP:
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Natural language processing
- SNA:
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Social network analysis. It devotes to analyze the social networks (or social graphs) by using the techniques and methods defined in the field of complex networks, such as centrality measures and community detection
- UMLS:
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Unified Medical Language System
- User roles:
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A set of users’ behavioral patterns present in the social context of online communities
Definition
Online health communities (OHCs) are one type of online platforms, which are commonly used as a means to communicate with others, exchange messages, and share health-related information. Most of the users in the OHCs are common patients, and their interactions are sometimes mediated by doctors, nurses, or healthcare providers. These patients get together to share experience, obtain health...
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant Nos. 71402157 and 71672163, the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation No. 2014A030313753, and the Theme-Based Research Scheme of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Grant No. T32–102/14 N.
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Xu, R., Zhou, J., Zhang, Q., Hendler, J.A. (2018). Research on Online Health Communities: A Systematic Review. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110215
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