Stroke recovery- what are people talking about on Twitter? A content analysis.
29 October 2024
Published
Dr. Terry Quinn, the David Cargill Chair of Cardiovascular Ageing and Honorary Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, is the author of the article titled "Stroke Recovery—What Are People Talking About on Twitter? A Content Analysis."
Here’s a brief summary of the article, which can be viewed in full at
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638288.2024.2403722#abstract.
If we want our research and clinical services to be relevant to patients, then we need to understand their opinions and priorities.
A forum where people speak freely on medical issues is the social media platform X (formerly twitter).
We searched X for tweets regarding life after stroke, collated them, and performed an analysis to look for recurring themes.
Messages that came across included the need to maintain hope, the importance of peer support, and using social media as a means to share knowledge.
The project has highlighted what stroke survivors really think about their recovery, but also demonstrates that social media can be used as a tool for qualitative research.