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. 2020 Jul 29;22(7):e13979. doi: 10.2196/13979

Table 6.

Distribution of the themes by the source category.

Total number of tweets in each user category (n) Theme-wise tweets
Miscellaneous, n (%) Advice and information
n (%)
Experience
n (%)
Misconception
n (%)
Prayers and wishes
n (%)
Seeking medical advice
n (%)
Seeking medical/financial help
n (%)
Offering medical/financial help
n (%)
Analogy
n (%)
General users, n=25,774 760 (2.9)a 1120 (4.3)a 613 (2.4)a 1864 (7.2)a 19,294 (74.9)a 260 (1.0)a 291 (1.1)a 35 (0.1)a 1537 (5.9)a
Patients with cancer/survivors, n=854 26 (3.0) 24 (2.8)a 464 (54.3)a 7 (0.8)a 64 (7.5)a 3 (8.5)a 183 (21.4)a 9 (1.1)a 4 (0.5)a
Relatives/friends of patients with cancer, n=1913 34 (1.8)a 42 (2.2)a 615 (32.1)a 16 (0.8)a 821 (42.9)a 137 (7.2)a 245 (12.8)a 0 (0) 3 (0.2)a
Cancer specialists, n=222 4 (1.8) 206 (92.8)a 5 (2.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 4 (1.8) 2 (0.9) 1 (0.4) 0 (0)
Health-related accounts, n=459 46 (10.0)a 215 (46.8)a 46 (10.0)a 21 (4.6) 85 (18.5)a 13 (2.8) 20 (4.4) 7 (1.5)a 6 (1.3)a
Media-related accounts, n=680 62 (9.1)a 281 (41.3)a 104 (15.3)a 176 (25.9)a 24 (3.5)a 0 (0) 13 (1.9) 14 (2.1)a 6 (0.9)a

aStatistically significant at Bonferroni-adjusted P<.001.