Abstract
This study aimed to quantify papillomavirus that is humanHPV) vaccine Twitter messaging handling homosexual, bisexual as well as other men who’ve intercourse with males (GB+MSM) and describes messaging by vaccine belief (attitudes towards vaccine) and traits (subject of texting). Between August 2014 and July 2015, we gathered 193 379 HPV-related tweets and classified them by vaccine belief and faculties. We analysed a subsample of tweets containing the terms вЂgay’, вЂbisexual’ and вЂMSM’ (N = 2306), and analysed distributions of belief and faculties chi-square that is using. HPV-related tweets containing GB+MSM terms occupied 1% of our test. The subsample had a mainly good vaccine belief. Nonetheless, a proportion of вЂgay’ and вЂbisexual’ tweets would not mention the vaccine, and a percentage of вЂgay’ and вЂMSM’ tweets had a negative sentiment. Topics diverse by GB+MSM term HPV risk messaging had been common in вЂbisexual’ (25%) tweets, and HPV transmission through sex/promiscuity texting had been predominant in вЂgay’ (18%) tweets. Continue reading “HPV vaccine, Twitter, and homosexual, bisexual along with other males that have intercourse with guys”