Health activism, vaccine, and mpox discourse: BERTopic based mixed-method analyses of tweets from sexual minority men and gender diverse (SMMGD) individuals in the U.S.

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To synthesize discussions among sexual minority men and gender diverse (SMMGD) individuals on mpox, given limited representation of SMMGD voices in existing mpox literature.BERTopic (a topic modeling technique) was employed with human validations to analyze mpox-related tweets ( = 8,688; October 2020-September 2022) from 2,326 self-identified SMMGD individuals in the U.S.; followed by content analysis and geographic analysis.BERTopic identified 11 topics: health activism (29.81%); mpox vaccination (25.81%) and adverse events (0.98%); sarcasm, jokes, emotional expressions (14.04%); COVID-19 and mpox (7.32%); government/public health response (6.12%); mpox symptoms (2.74%); case reports (2.21%); puns on the virus' naming (i.e., monkeypox; 0.86%); media publicity (0.68%); mpox in children (0.67%). Mpox health activism negatively correlated with LGB social climate index at U.S. state level, = -0.322, = 0.031.SMMGD discussions on mpox encompassed utilitarian (e.g., vaccine access, case reports, mpox symptoms) and emotionally-charged themes-advocating against homophobia, misinformation, and stigma. Mpox health activism was more prevalent in states with lower LGB social acceptance.Findings illuminate SMMGD engagement with mpox discourse, underscoring the need for more inclusive health communication strategies in infectious disease outbreaks to control associated stigma.
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Authors Wang, Yunwen;O'Connor, Karen;Flores, Ivan;Berdahl, Carl T;Urbanowicz, Ryan J;Stevens, Robin;Bauermeister, José A;Gonzalez-Hernandez, Graciela;
Journal medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Year 2024
DOI 2024.03.19.24304519
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Keywords
social media natural language processing emerging infectious disease health equity smmgd health activism mpox (monkeypox) stigma prevention

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