{"id":37293,"date":"2022-10-31T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=37293"},"modified":"2022-10-31T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:13:47","slug":"doctors-use-more-negative-language-about-me-cfs-online-than-other-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/doctors-use-more-negative-language-about-me-cfs-online-than-other-illnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors use more negative language about ME\/CFS online than other illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctors’ attitudes to medical conditions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\"\"On an online medical forum physicians were found to discuss ME\/CFS, depression and Lyme disease with more negative language than 21 other diseases. The results for ME\/CFS included over 4 times more negative words than the results for depression.<\/h3>\n

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Doctors\u2019 attitudes toward specific medical conditions<\/a>, by Brooke Scoles, Catia Nicodemo in<\/span> Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization <\/em>Vol 204, Dec 2022, pp 182-199 [doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jebo.2022.09.023]<\/h3>\n

Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This study uses machine learning<\/a> and natural language processing<\/a> tools to examine the language used by healthcare professionals on a global online forum. It contributes to an underdeveloped area of knowledge, that of physician attitudes toward their patients.<\/p>\n

Using comments left by physicians on Reddit\u2019s “Medicine\u201d subreddit (r\/medicine)<\/a>, we test if the language from online discussions can reveal doctors\u2019 attitudes toward specific medical conditions. We focus on a set of chronic conditions that usually are more stigmatized and compare them to ones well accepted by the medical community.<\/p>\n

We discovered that when comparing diseases with similar traits, doctors discussed some conditions with more negative attitudes. These results show bias does not occur only along the dimensions traditionally analyzed in the economics literature of gender and race, but also along the dimension of disease type.<\/p>\n

This is meaningful because the emotions associated with beliefs impact physicians\u2019 decision making, prescribing behavior, and quality of care. <\/strong><\/p>\n

First, we run a binomial LASSO-logistic regression<\/a> to compare a range of 21 diseases against myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS), depression, and the autoimmune diseases multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Next, we use dictionary methods to compare five more chronic diseases: Lyme disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), Alzheimer\u2019s disease, osteoporosis, and lupus.<\/p>\n

The results show physicians discuss ME\/CFS, depression, and Lyme disease with more negative language than the other diseases in the set. The results for ME\/CFS included over four times more negative words than the results for depression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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