Public Discourse and Sentiment Toward Dementia on Chinese Social Media: Machine Learning Analysis of Weibo Posts

Dexia Kong   ¹ , MSW, MBE, PhD ;   Anfan Chen   ² , PhD ;   Jingwen Zhang   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Xiaoling Xiang   ⁵ , PhD ;   W Q Vivian Lou   ⁶ , MSW, PhD ;   Timothy Kwok   ⁷ , MD ;   Bei Wu   ⁸ , PhD

¹ Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

² School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

³ Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States

⁵ School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁶ Department of Social Work & Social Administration, Sau Po Centre on Ageing, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

⁸ Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, United States