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      Exploring the Transition to Fatherhood: Feasibility Study Using Social Media and Machine Learning

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      , BBus, BPsych (Hons) 1 , , BIT (Hons), PhD 1 , 2 ,
      (Reviewer), (Reviewer)
      JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
      JMIR Publications
      parenting, perinatal care, fathers, social media, parent-child relations, infodemiology, unsupervised machine learning

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          Abstract

          Background

          Fathers’ experiences across the transition to parenthood are underreported in the literature. Social media offers the potential to capture fathers’ experiences in real time and at scale while also removing the barriers that fathers typically face in participating in research and clinical care.

          Objective

          This study aimed to assess the feasibility of using social media data to map the discussion topics of fathers across the fatherhood transition.

          Methods

          Discussion threads from two Web-based parenting communities, r/Daddit and r/PreDaddit from the social media platform Reddit, were collected over a 2-week period, resulting in 1980 discussion threads contributed to by 5853 unique users. An unsupervised machine learning algorithm was then implemented to group discussion threads into topics within each community and across a combined collection of all discussion threads.

          Results

          Results demonstrated that men use Web-based communities to share the joys and challenges of the fatherhood experience. Minimal overlap in discussions was found between the 2 communities, indicating that distinct conversations are held on each forum. A range of social support techniques was demonstrated, with conversations characterized by encouragement, humor, and experience-based advice.

          Conclusions

          This study demonstrates that rich data on fathers’ experiences can be sourced from social media and analyzed rapidly using automated techniques, providing an additional tool for researchers exploring fatherhood.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                JMIR Pediatr Parent
                JMIR Pediatr Parent
                JPP
                JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
                JMIR Publications (Toronto, Canada )
                2561-6722
                Jul-Dec 2018
                27 November 2018
                : 1
                : 2
                : e12371
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development School of Psychology Deakin University Burwood Australia
                [2 ] School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology Federation University Berwick Australia
                Author notes
                Corresponding Author: Adrian BR Shatte a.shatte@ 123456federation.edu.au
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0487-7307
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6225-9697
                Article
                v1i2e12371
                10.2196/12371
                6715057
                31518298
                41bc14f1-523b-4690-8c9c-ccc50074bd1f
                ©Samantha J Teague, Adrian BR Shatte. Originally published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting (http://pediatrics.jmir.org), 27.11.2018.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://pediatrics.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.

                History
                : 30 September 2018
                : 23 October 2018
                : 6 November 2018
                : 9 November 2018
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                parenting,perinatal care,fathers,social media,parent-child relations,infodemiology,unsupervised machine learning

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