Exploring the Health Information Needs of the Elderly Based on the Online Health Communities

Yuhan Ma, Qiuli Qin

2022

Abstract

This paper explored the health information needs of the elderly from two perspectives: information demanders and information providers. It crawled data from questions and health education sections on the online health communities. LDA model was applied to cluster the unlabeled questions set and obtain five themes. Then the dataset of article titles with five categories was used to train the classifiers: CNN-BiLSTM and FastText. After comparing the matching degree between clustering themes and classification results, this paper put forward some suggestions for caregivers and information providers to assist elderly health management.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ma Y. and Qin Q. (2022). Exploring the Health Information Needs of the Elderly Based on the Online Health Communities. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Public Management, Digital Economy and Internet Technology - Volume 1: ICPDI; ISBN 978-989-758-620-0, SciTePress, pages 512-517. DOI: 10.5220/0011751000003607

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpdi22,
author={Yuhan Ma and Qiuli Qin},
title={Exploring the Health Information Needs of the Elderly Based on the Online Health Communities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Public Management, Digital Economy and Internet Technology - Volume 1: ICPDI},
year={2022},
pages={512-517},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011751000003607},
isbn={978-989-758-620-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Public Management, Digital Economy and Internet Technology - Volume 1: ICPDI
TI - Exploring the Health Information Needs of the Elderly Based on the Online Health Communities
SN - 978-989-758-620-0
AU - Ma Y.
AU - Qin Q.
PY - 2022
SP - 512
EP - 517
DO - 10.5220/0011751000003607
PB - SciTePress