Table 4.
Descriptive characteristics of those tweets referencing efficacy in which the user was categorized as a patient, health professional, or health institution. Tweets were further classified as either not mentioning efficacy or mentioning it positively or negatively.
Efficacy | Patients, n (%) | Health professionals, n (%) | Health institutions, n (%) | Total, n (%) |
No mention | 27 (20.45) | 34 (25.76) | 71 (53.79) | 132 (100) |
Positive | 19 (8.19) | 83 (35.78 | 130 (56.03) | 232 (100) |
Negative | 7 (58.33) | 5 (41.67) | 0 (0) | 12 (100) |
Total | 53 (14.10) | 122 (32.45) | 201 (53.46) | 376 (100) |