Melody Huang, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Elizabeth Janiak, Katherine Young, Anabel Starosta, Katherine Blanton, Alaleh Azhir, Caroline N Goldfarb, Felícita Kuperwasser, Kimberly M Schaefer, Rachel E Stoddard, Rajet Vatsa, Allison A Merz-Herrala, Deborah Bartz
BACKGROUND: Information on social media may affect peoples' contraceptive decision making. We performed an exploratory analysis of contraceptive content on Twitter (recently renamed X), a popular social media platform. METHODS: We selected a random subset of 1% of publicly available, English-language tweets related to reversible, prescription contraceptive methods posted between January 2014 and December 2019. We oversampled tweets for the contraceptive patch to ensure at least 200 tweets per method...
February 7, 2024: Contraception and Reproductive Medicine