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Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2019 Feb 23;28(6):1441–1455. doi: 10.1007/s11136-019-02132-w

Table 4.

Topics extracted by LDA on things patients want to prevent prior to surgery and 6 months after surgery

Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Topic 4 Topic 5 Topic 6 Topic 7
Word Prob. Word Prob. Word Prob. Word Prob. Word Prob. Word Prob. Word Prob.
Featured words: prior to surgery (n = 104 documents, vocabulary size = 434)
 Loss 0.0203 Want 0.0276 Surgery 0.0596 Death 0.0525 Effects 0.0171 Surgery 0.0229 Cancer 0.0806
 Bladder 0.0203 Going 0.0188 Complications 0.0328 Falling 0.0231 Operation 0.0171 Dying 0.0229 Cancer recurrence 0.0366
 Bag 0.0203 Operation 0.0100 Complications-surgery 0.0222 Life 0.0158 Effects-operation 0.0171 Want 0.0156 Recurrence 0.0366
 Having 0.0138 Medical 0.0100 Want 0.0168 Want 0.0158 Depression 0.0171 Sure 0.0156 Coming 0.0166
 Loss bladder 0.0074 People 0.0100 Long 0.0115 Prevent 0.0084 Immobility 0.0171 Make 0.0156 Cancer coming 0.0166
 Cancer spreading 0.0074 Life 0.0100 Knee 0.0115 Issues 0.0084 Sickness 0.0021 Dependent 0.0156 Cancer spreading 0.0126
 Spreading 0.0074 Operation-going 0.0100 Function 0.0115 Health 0.0084 Illness 0.0021 Make-sure 0.0156 Spreading 0.0126
 Long 0.0074 Compared 0.0100 Infection 0.0115 Health issues 0.0084 Death 0.0021 Cancer 0.0156 Prevent 0.0086
 Pain 0.0074 Change-choice 0.0100 Recurrence 0.0115 Stress 0.0084 Surgery 0.0021 Continue 0.0083 Getting 0.0086
 Surgery loss 0.0074 Choice-compared 0.0100 Illness 0.0115 Surgery 0.0084 Cancer 0.0021 Bladder cancer 0.0083 Avoid 0.0086
Featured words: After surgery (n = 211 documents, vocabulary size = 825)
 Avoid 0.019 Getting 0.044 Want 0.016 Avoid 0.028 Cancer 0.114 Illness 0.019 Wan 0.026
 Getting 0.019 Cancer 0.033 Death 0.012 Accidents 0.013 Recurrence 0.075 Having 0.016 Avoid 0.017
 Sick 0.017 Prevent 0.022 Problem 0.009 Going 0.013 Cancer recurrence 0.055 Negative 0.015 Dying 0.014
 Leakage 0.017 Cancer coming 0.017 Night 0.009 Like 0.010 Avoid 0.031 Prevent 0.014 Old 0.010
 Going 0.014 Coming 0.017 Problems complaint 0.009 Prevent 0.010 Prevent 0.020 Prevent having 0.011 Relapse 0.010
 Getting sick 0.014 Sick 0.015 Concerned-problems 0.009 Avoid going 0.010 Avoid cancer 0.015 Illness-negative 0.011 Years 0.010
 Health 0.014 Getting sick 0.015 Concerned 0.009 People 0.007 Weight 0.012 Family 0.008 Years old 0.010
 Things 0.014 Future 0.013 Complaint 0.009 IU 0.007 Having cancer 0.011 Happening 0.008 Getting 0.010
 Prevent 0.012 Sickness 0.010 Incontinence 0.009 Leakage 0.007 Recurrence cancer 0.010 Exhaustion 0.008 Dying-years 0.007
 Prevent getting 0.010 Getting cancer 0.010 Incontinence-night 0.009 Know 0.007 Having 0.009 Ridden exhaustion 0.008 Avoid relapse 0.007