Table 2.
Amount of negative or oppositional social media comments containing identified categorical elements.
| Comment categorya | Number of comments (N=133), n (%) |
| Government related | 22 (16.5) |
| Conspiratorial or irrational | 19 (14.3) |
| Parental autonomy and privacy | 53 (39.8) |
| Child protective services and police | 7 (5.3) |
| Reasoned disagreement | 16 (12.0) |
| Survey mechanisms | 15 (11.3) |
| Other or miscellaneous | 33 (24.8) |
aCategories were not mutually exclusive. The most common overlapping codes were government related + conspiratorial or irrational (10/133, 7.5%) and reasoned disagreement + survey mechanisms (6/133, 4.5%).