Table 3.
Semantic content of tweets about diseases
| AR n=119 | EA n=16 | AP n=14 | RA n=990 | AS n=139 | PA n=219 | total n=1497 | |
| General aspects of the diseases | |||||||
| Alternatives therapies, n | 13 | 3 | 112 | 6 | 11 | 145 | |
| Nutrition, n | 15 | 102 | 4 | 7 | 128 | ||
| Diagnosis, n | 3 | 1 | 2 | 64 | 17 | 19 | 106 |
| Exercise, n | 10 | 1 | 58 | 7 | 15 | 91 | |
| Risk factors for disease, n | 5 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 16 | 46 |
| Cause of disease, n | 3 | 29 | 2 | 34 | |||
| Heredity, n | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 18 | ||
| Vaccine for RA, n | 7 | 10 | 17 | ||||
| Pregnancy, n | 1 | 7 | 8 | 16 | |||
| Cure, n | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Cardiovascular risk, n | 6 | 2 | 8 | ||||
| Meteorology, n | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Prevention, n | 2 | 6 | 8 | ||||
| Remission, n | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Vacation, n | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Dental health, n | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Stem cell transplantation, n | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Prevalence, n | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Total tweets general aspects, n (% of total tweets of each disease) | 64 (4.28) | 8 (0.53) | 37 (0.20) | 449 (30.01) | 43 (2.87) | 90 (6.02) | 657 (43.92) |
| Quality of life aspects | |||||||
| Pain, n | 9 | 64 | 13 | 17 | 103 | ||
| Disability, n | 6 | 33 | 2 | 6 | 47 | ||
| Employment, n | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 23 | ||
| Emotional effects, n | 1 | 1 | 10 | 12 | |||
| Sexual relation, n | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | |||
| Sleep problems, n | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |||
| Marriage relation, n | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| Stress, n | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Total tweets related to quality of life, n (% of total tweets of each disease) | 17 (14.28) | 2 (12.50) | 1 (7.14) | 132 (13.33) | 23 (16.67) | 36 (16.44) | 211 (14.10) |
| Disease-related symptoms | |||||||
| General management of symptoms, n | 2 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 23 | ||
| Joint inflammation, n | 17 | 1 | 2 | 20 | |||
| Flare-up, n | 12 | 1 | 3 | 16 | |||
| Tired, n | 10 | 1 | 11 | ||||
| Feet symptoms, n | 8 | 2 | 10 | ||||
| Stiffness, n | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Nails' changes, n | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Lung problems, n | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Itching, n | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total tweets about symptoms, n (% of total tweets of each disease) | 2 (1.68) | 1 (7.14) | 72 (7.27) | 2 (1.45) | 20 (9.13) | 97 (6.48) | |
Sixty-five tweets about therapies (6.61%) cited another concomitant treatment in addition to biological therapy (52 tweets of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, seven of steroids, five of antihistaminics and one of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs).
AR, artritis reumatoide (Spanish term for rheumatoid arthritis), AP: artritis psoriásica (Spanish term for psoriatic arthritis) AS: ankylosing spondylitis EA: espondilitis anquilosante (Spanish term for ankylosing spondylitis), RA: rheumatoid arthritis, PA: psoriatic arthritis.