Table 2
Sentiment and emotion distributions of the 30 topics of interest of people with or talking about diabetes
| No. | Topic label | % (N) | SA score | SA distr. neg=(−1,1)=pos | Primary emotions (%) joy ||love || surprise || sad || anger || fear |
| 1 | Support / Solidarity in diabetes community | 1.3 (613) | 0.68 |  |  |
| 2 | Inspiring relatives living with diabetes | 3.3 (1552) | 0.67 |  |  |
| 3 | Sharing hope and encouraging | 1.2 (542) | 0.54 |  |  |
| 4 | Diabetes awareness / support / donation | 3.2 (1499) | 0.48 |  |  |
| 5 | DSMA enjoying online support | 3.1 (1459) | 0.47 |  |  |
| 6 | Sharing diabetes-related stories | 3.3 (1513) | 0.36 |  |  |
| 7 | T1D hashtags | 1.8 (812) | 0.33 |  |  |
| 8 | Diabetes care | 2.9 (1353) | 0.28 |  |  |
| 9 | Blood sugar palette (beauty products) | 1.8 (818) | 0.26 |  |  |
| 10 | Advocacy for affordable insulin | 1.1 (505) | 0.22 |  |  |
| 11 | Life with and without diabetes | 2.7 (1239) | 0.19 |  |  |
| 12 | Life with T1D | 3.3 (1514) | 0.18 |  |  |
| 13 | Glucose guardian | 0.7 (343) | 0.16 |  |  |
| 14 | Chatting about insulin | 5.0 (2302) | 0.14 |  |  |
| 15 | Insulin and insulin pump complications | 4.4 (2036) | 0.09 |  |  |
| 16 | Diabetes in family | 0.9 (436) | 0.07 |  |  |
| 17 | Diaversary | 3.6 (1685) | 0.07 |  |  |
| 18 | Day-to-day stories about diabetes | 5.7 (2666) | 0.05 |  |  |
| 19 | Confusion between T1D and T2D | 3.9 (1804) | 0.04 |  |  |
| 20 | Diagnosis | 2.2 (1023) | 0.02 |  |  |
| 21 | Glycemic instability | 5.1 (2363) | 0.01 |  |  |
| 22 | Insulin | 8.6 (3970) | 0.01 |  |  |
| 23 | Diabetes pop star Nick Jonas | 0.5 (218) | −0.07 |  |  |
| 24 | Misunderstandings of diabetes | 7.0 (3244) | −0.08 |  |  |
| 25 | Frustration with insulin prices | 6.3 (2916) | −0.12 |  |  |
| 26 | OGTT | 4.3 (2012) | −0.13 |  |  |
| 27 | Parents and diabetes | 4.0 (1859) | −0.14 |  |  |
| 28 | Diabetes distress | 4.5 (2067) | −0.19 |  |  |
| 29 | Diabetic / Insulin shock | 0.6 (284) | −0.33 |  |  |
| 30 | Diabetes-related comorbidities | 3.8 (1760) | −0.36 |  |  |
For each topic, the following information is provided: the topic label, the frequency of the topic, the average sentiment analysis score (SA score), the sentiment analysis distribution (SA distr.) and the frequency of primary emotions.
DSMA, Diabetes Social Media Advocacy online group; OGTT, oral glucose tolerance test; T1D, type 1 diabetes; T2D, type 2 diabetes.