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Table 2 Topic clustering of videos by medical professionals and sentiment analysis of comments

From: Contents analysis of thyroid cancer-related information uploaded to YouTube by physicians in Korea: endorsing thyroid cancer screening, potentially leading to overdiagnosis

 

N (%)

Mentioned poor prognosis

(N (%))

Average

number of

views

(Mean ± SD)

Average

number of

recommend

(Mean ± SD)

Comments

(included

in the

analysis*)

Comments (%)

Positive

Neutral

Negative

Topic 1

Thyroid cancer is not a

“Good cancer”

48

(28.4)

48 (100.0)

12,785.9 ± 2,058.8

193.8 ± 35.6

819 (623)

70.1

14.8

15.1

Topic 2

Epidemiology and causes of

thyroid cancer

6

(3.6)

4 (66.7)

4,689.5 ± 2,861.4

59.2 ± 38.1

37 (32)

46.9

37.5

15.6

Topic 3

Symptoms and diagnosis of

thyroid cancer

33

(19.5)

27 (81.8)

75,885.6 ± 23,950.3

902.7 ± 313.2

1,677 (1,352)

61.1

18.5

20.4

Topic 4

Treatment of thyroid cancer

28

(16.6)

22 (78.6)

12,224.1 ± 2,363.3

247.5 ± 63.4

683 (571)

60.9

15.8

23.3

Topic 5

Overdiagnosis of

thyroid cancer

14 (8.3)

0 (0.0)

9,684.0 ± 2,167.8

108.5 ± 39.4

97 (81)

30.9

28.4

40.7

Topic 6

Prognosis of thyroid cancer

8 (4.7)

2 (25.0)

5,067.6 ± 3,741.7

74.1 ± 56.9

52 (38)

34.2

39.5

26.3

Topic 7

Management of

thyroid cancer patients

32

(18.9)

12 (37.5)

50,634.3 ± 18,758.7

968.7 ± 412.7

1,277 (964)

68.7

14.9

16.4