Can online discussion sites generate quality data for research purposes?

• Main Authors: Smith, Helen, Bulbul, Alpaslan, Jones, Christina J.
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Social Media; Health Information Seeking
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86046; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45376
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We have recently presented orally the preliminary findings of some research where we derived our data from online discussion sites. Our research described parents’ and caregivers’ experiences of administering medications to young children (1, 2). Different aspects of these data have been presented a...