Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Formative Research
Date Submitted: Nov 8, 2023
Date Accepted: May 8, 2024
A simple and systematic approach to qualitative data extraction from social media for novice healthcare researchers: Tutorial
ABSTRACT
Social media analyses have become increasingly popular among healthcare researchers. Social media continues to grow its user base and, when analyzed, offers unique insight into health problems. The process of obtaining data for social media analyses varies greatly. Data extraction is often facilitated by software, some available via open source and others costly and therefore not accessible to all researchers. Use of software for extraction is also accompanied by additional challenges related to the uniqueness of social media data. Thus, this paper provides a tutorial, or a step-by-step guide, for a simple method of extracting social media data that any healthcare researcher can follow. We outline the methods used to extract data from Facebook for a study of maternal perspectives on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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