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Body donation in Japanese social media: webometrics and family network analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
There are several challenges in communicating and collecting data for novel biomedical research in Japan. As body donation has some similarities to these procedures, we examined the communication of body donation in Japanese social media.
Objective:
Our objective was to analyse body donation in social media.
Methods:
We collected related data to the hashtag “献体”, “body donation” in Japanese. A total of 374 YouTube videos and 91,601 Tweets were considered. We then employed webometrics analysis in the data, and an Information Quality score and family network analysis in the videos.
Results:
There was co-occurrence of organ donation and body donation keywords in word graphs. The general perception of body donation was positive in Information videos, whereas it was negative in No Information and Misinformation videos. Nevertheless, there were no significant differences (p>0.05 ) in terms of number of views across these three categories. The average information quality of the videos was 0.13. We identified Tohoku as a region that expressed interest in body donation on the Tweets. Further, spouses and children were relevant to body donation, based on edge thickness and closeness centrality of the family networks.
Conclusions:
We confirmed the value of previous findings on the communication of organ donation in regards to body donation, and provide further recommendations for the promotion of body donation in Japan.
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