Public Health and Governmental Organizations | |||||||||||||||
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Twitter Characteristics | Canadian Organizations | United States Organizations | |||||||||||||
CPHA | CAMH | HC | CMHA | PHAC | MHCC | CIHR | NIDA | SAMHSA | NIH | APHA | NAMI | CDC | DHHS | ||
Number of followers* | 3902 | 39,802 | 215,021 | 21,364 | 73,964 | 18,552 | 41,169 | 40,374 | 75,636 | 811,577 | 476,891 | 106,504 | 863,534 | 711,590 | |
Date range of included data (mm/yy) | 02/15–09/17 | 07/16–09/17 | 08/13–09/17 | 07/12–09/17 | 11/11–09/17 | 05/15–09/17 | 12/15–09/17 | 04/15–09/17 | 01/16–09/17 | 06/15–09/17 | 08/16–09/17 | 02/16–09/17 | 08/16–09/17 | 05/16–09/17 | |
Number of cannabis-related Tweets (/3200) | 108 | 84 | 47 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 291 | 14 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N = 580 |
Theme/ Sub-theme Frequency ┼ | Total n (%) | ||||||||||||||
T1: Health-related topics | 103 (17.8%) | ||||||||||||||
Therapeutic effects | 2 | 20 | 22 | ||||||||||||
Smoke (cannabis & tobacco) | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
Neurological impacts | 10 | 1 | 37 | 1 | 49 | ||||||||||
Substance use disorders | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||
Cannabis and mental illness | 5 | 2 | 9 | 16 | |||||||||||
T2: Legalization and legislation | 103 (17.8%) | ||||||||||||||
Expert discussions | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 22 | ||||||||||
Governmental announcements | 5 | 8 | 13 | ||||||||||||
Issues with legalization | 12 | 1 | 6 | 19 | |||||||||||
Promoting legalization with regulation | 13 | 3 | 7 | 23 | |||||||||||
Promoting proposed legislation | 4 | 12 | 16 | ||||||||||||
Advertising public consultation | 8 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||||
T3: Research on cannabis | 101 (17.4%) | ||||||||||||||
Cannabis and alcohol | 2 | 21 | 1 | 24 | |||||||||||
Cannabis and opioids | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||||
Sharing research results | 3 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 1 | 67 | ||||||||
Removing barriers to research | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | |||||||||||
T4: Special Populations | 92 (15.9%) | ||||||||||||||
Parents | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
Pregnant women | 9 | 9 | |||||||||||||
Youth and young adults | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 47 | 6 | 1 | 67 | |||||||
College students | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
T5: Driving and cannabis | 3 | 5 | 51 | 59 (10.2%) | |||||||||||
T6: Population-level issues | 38 (6.6%) | ||||||||||||||
Public perception of cannabis | 1 | 10 | 2 | 13 | |||||||||||
Cannabis use rates | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 25 | |||||||
T7: Medical cannabis | 18 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 35 (6.0%) | ||||||||||
T8: Public health topics | 22 (3.8%) | ||||||||||||||
Approach to regulation | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14 | ||||||||||
Promoting low-risk guidelines | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||||
Totals | 88 | 69 | 46 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 326 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 562 |