Temporal evolution of digital health communication in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A longitudinal NLP analysis of reddit discussions (2018–2024)
Fig 6
Analysis of URL-containing posts and comments in r/rheumatoid and r/rheumatoidarthritis subreddit.
(A) Percentage of posts and comments containing URLs across different categories in r/rheumatoid (S1) and r/rheumatoidarthritis (S2). Categories include Academic Resources, Blogs and Personal Websites, Government Websites, Medical and Healthcare Websites, News Outlets, Non-Profit Organizations, Others, Shopping, and Social Media Platforms. (B) Proportional distribution of URL categories across pre-COVID, COVID, and post-COVID periods in both subreddits, reflecting relative rather than absolute frequencies. (C) Percentage of sentiment distribution (positive, neutral, negative) in URL-containing posts and comments. (D) Percentage of emotion distribution (anger, disgust, fear, joy, neutral, sadness, surprise) in URL-containing posts and comments.