Public Health Surveillance of Behavioral Cancer Risk Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Twitter Data

Nicolette Christodoulakis   ¹ ;   Wael Abdelkader   ¹ , MSc, MD ;   Cynthia Lokker   ¹ , MSc, PhD ;   Michelle Cotterchio   ^{2, 3} , MPH, PhD ;   Lauren E Griffith   ¹ , MSc, PhD ;   Leigh M Vanderloo   ^{4, 5} , MSc, PhD ;   Laura N Anderson   ¹ , MSc, PhD

¹ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Population Health and Value Based Health Systems, Ontario Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ ParticipACTION, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ School of Occupational Therapy, Western University, London, ON, Canada