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12. Impact of sentiment analysis tools to improve patients’ life in critical diseases

  • Dhaval Bhoi and Amit Thakkar

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The development, approbation, and acceptance of various social media tools and applications have opened new doors of opportunity for gaining crucial insight from unstructured information. Sentiment analysis and opinion mining have become popular in modern years and can be applied in diversified application areas like healthcare informatics, sports, financial sector, politics, tourism, and consumer activities and behavior. In this regard, this chapter presents how sentiment analysis can help for betterment of people suffering from critical diseases. Healthcare-related unstructured tweets relating to being shared on Twitter is becoming crowd-pleasing source of information for healthcare research. Sentiment analysis is becoming metric measurement to find out feelings or opinion of patient suffering from severe diseases. Various tools and methodologies are used, from which color-coded Word Cloud can be formed based on sentiment. Exploring the methods used for sentiment analysis on healthcare research can allow us to get better insight and understanding of human feelings and their psychology and mindset. The study shows various types of tools used in each case and different media sources and examines its impact and improvement in diseases like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer using sentiment analysis and its impact on one’s life. Sentiment analysis helps in designing strategies to improve patients understanding and behavior.

Abstract

The development, approbation, and acceptance of various social media tools and applications have opened new doors of opportunity for gaining crucial insight from unstructured information. Sentiment analysis and opinion mining have become popular in modern years and can be applied in diversified application areas like healthcare informatics, sports, financial sector, politics, tourism, and consumer activities and behavior. In this regard, this chapter presents how sentiment analysis can help for betterment of people suffering from critical diseases. Healthcare-related unstructured tweets relating to being shared on Twitter is becoming crowd-pleasing source of information for healthcare research. Sentiment analysis is becoming metric measurement to find out feelings or opinion of patient suffering from severe diseases. Various tools and methodologies are used, from which color-coded Word Cloud can be formed based on sentiment. Exploring the methods used for sentiment analysis on healthcare research can allow us to get better insight and understanding of human feelings and their psychology and mindset. The study shows various types of tools used in each case and different media sources and examines its impact and improvement in diseases like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer using sentiment analysis and its impact on one’s life. Sentiment analysis helps in designing strategies to improve patients understanding and behavior.

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