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Table 3 Topic clustering of videos about patient’s experience and sentiment analysis of comments (N = 71)

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

Symptoms and detection

of thyroid cancer

6 (8.5)

0 (0.0)

6,273.5 ± 2,826.7

73.5 ± 21.8

96 (85)

51.8

8.2

40.0

Topic 2

Diagnosis process of

thyroid cancer

5 (7.0)

0 (0.0)

84,926.6 ± 46,847.6

1,085.8 ± 622.0

1,339 (1,185)

57.9

9.6

32.5

Topic 3

Treatment process and

aftertreatment of

thyroid cancer

28 (39.4)

14(50.0)

61,179.9 ± 35,843.2

589.4 ± 387.5

3,553 (2,977)

63.6

19.8

16.7

Topic 4

Management after

thyroid cancer treatment

9 (12.7)

2(22.2)

34,412.3 ± 28,568.0

813.1 ± 712.3

774 (672)

74.3

10.6

15.2

Topic 5

Thyroid cancer sequelae/

complications

13 (18.3)

10 (76.9)

13,756.4 ± 4,343.1

160.1 ± 36.6

546 (470)

56.6

20.4

23.0

Topic 6

The story of overcoming

thyroid cancer

10 (14.1)

2(20.0)

1,863.6 ± 579.7

49.9 ± 13.5

152 (131)

82.4

9.2

8.4