Children’s Health Study
Initiatives
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This study obtained the Twitter tweets of young adults and assessed associations between tweeting about tobacco and using tobacco products.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2016
- End Year
- 2017
- Funding
- Research reported in this publication was supported by Grant # P50CA180905 from the National Cancer Institute and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP).
Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
Marker Paper
Unger JB, Urman R, Cruz TB, et al. Talking about tobacco on Twitter is associated with tobacco product use. Prev Med. 2018;114:54‐56. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.06.006
PUBMED 29898418
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 1,486
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
adolescents and young adults in Southern California
Among the 1486 respondents in the most recent wave of the cohort (2016-2017), 284 provided tobacco product use data and their Twitter user names to access publicly available Twitter account data (mean age = 20.1 yrs. (SD = 0.6), 54% female, 49% Hispanic).
Selection Criteria
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- United States of America
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- General population
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 1,486
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
We obtained the tweets that those respondents posted on Twitter, searched the tweets for 14 nicotine- and tobacco-related keywords, and coded these statements as positive or negative/neutral.
- Start Date
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2016
- End Date
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2017
- Data sources
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Social media
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Social media