Financial Burden in Adults With Chronic Illness in Switzerland: A Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Interviews Using Natural Language Processing and Topic Modeling

Giovanni Spitale   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Julia Seinsche   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Rosa M S Visscher   ^{2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Andrea Schöpf-Lazzarino   ² , PhD ;   Josip Jurisic   ² , MSc ;   Federico Germani   ¹ , PhD ;   Elena Alder   ^{2, 5} , MSc ;   Nikola Biller Andorno   ¹ ;   Karin Ribi   ² , PhD ;   Bettina Schwind   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

² Careum School of Health, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Zürich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

³ Department for Public Health and Health Services Research, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

⁴ Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

⁵ Center for Health Literacy, Careum Foundation, Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

*these authors contributed equally