1.Study on the Thematic Characteristics of Sleep Disorders Disease Description Texts in Online Health Communities
Panxing PANG ; Cairong HE ; Lei ZHANG ; Jingxin CHEN ; Rongli SHI ; Zhongyue XU ; Kaiyuan WENG
Journal of Medical Informatics 2024;45(10):59-64
Purpose/Significance Disease description texts are analyzed to reach a deeper understanding of the current status of on-line consultations for sleep disorders and the thematic characteristics of users with sleep disorders.Method/Process Data about sleep dis-orders from"haodf.com"website is collected by using a web crawler.Furthermore,the main themes about patients'description are i-dentified by the latent Dirichlet allocation(LDA)model.Result/Conclusion The departments of sleep disorders are more dispersed,and the main treatment is drug therapy.Online consultations could improve 83.2%of patients'condition.The themes of patients's disease descriptions include medication and consultation,external environment,description of symptoms,surrogate questions and causes.It is suggested that the platform and doctors should pay attention to the prognosis of patients'medication and mental health status,and pay at-tention to the popularization of comorbidities.
2.Study on Current Situation and Improvement Path of E-health Literacy of Middle-aged and Elderly People in Guangzhou
Jianling CHEN ; Guiping WU ; Rongli SHI ; Jienan ZHENG ; Mengdie LI ; Panxing PANG
Journal of Medical Informatics 2024;45(9):57-62
Purpose/Significance To analyze the dynamic changes,influencing factors and weak links of e-health literacy of middle-aged and elderly people,so as to provide references for improving e-health literacy of middle-aged and elderly people.Method/Process A questionnaire survey is conducted among 505 middle-aged and elderly people in Guangzhou,and the results are analyzed by using SPSS 24.0.Result/Conclusion The average score of e-health literacy of middle-aged and elderly people is in the middle level;The weak link of e-health literacy is the lack of health information interaction and evaluation capacity.Individual factors are the primary factors that affect e-health literacy of middle-aged and elderly people.It is suggested to increase policy and financial support,carry out"the younger population helps the aging population"mode,and elderly-oriented transformation of digital health Apps.