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ABSTRACT
We consider social media as a promising tool for, public health
focusing on the use of Twitter posts to build. Predictive models about the influence of childbirth on the forthcoming behavior and mood of new mothers.
Using Twitter. Posts we quantify, postpartum changes in 376 mothers along dimensions of social engagement emotion social network and,,,, Linguistic style.
.We then construct statistical models from a training set of observations of these measures before and after the reported. Childbirth
to, forecast significant postpartum changes in mothers.
The predictive models can classify mothers who will. Change significantly following childbirth with an accuracy of 71% using observations, about their, prenatal behavior
.And as accurately as 80-83% when additionally leveraging the initial 2 - 3 weeks of postnatal data.
The study is motivated. By the opportunity to use social media to identify mothers at risk of postpartum depression
an, underreported health concern. Among large populations and to, inform the design, of low-cost
.Privacy-sensitive early - warning systems and intervention programs aimed at promoting wellness postpartum.
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