35339 Comparative analysis of social media sentiment between keloids and psoriasis: A prospective observational study

Abstract

Keloids and psoriasis exhibit a similar prevalence and Dermatology-Life-Quality-Index (DLQI) score. They are distinct, however, in that keloids affect darker skin more commonly. We hypothesize that keloids are associated with more negative sentiments due to lack of effective treatments and patient education. We use a natural language processing package (NTLK 3.6.2) that reads Tweets and cross-references over 50 lexical resources to conduct a sentiment analysis of Twitter mentions for keloids and psoriasis.