Questions on Diabetes from Patients and the Public

There are two Excel .csv files containing questions on type 2 diabetes mellitus tagged by the specific topics each question covers. clinicquestions.csv has questions collected from 100 patients. crowdsourcedquestions.csv has questions collected from 300 members of the public. Questions on type 1 diabetes were removed, as were questions on clinic operations. Details on the coding can be found in the citation (below).clinicquestions.csvNumber of instances: 152Number of attributes: 25Attribute characteristics: text; integer IDs, one-hot encodingsMissing data: nonecrowdsourcedquestions.csv Number of instances: 284Number of attributes: 26Attribute characteristics: text; categorical (Female/Male); integer IDs, one-hot encodingsMissing data: noneATTRIBUTES:gender – categorical (Male/Female)person_ID – Integer identifier for the person asking the question qx_ID – Integer identifier for the questionQx – The text of the question itself, as asked, without corrections or edits22 topic categories one-hot encoded:CAUSE ; RISK; PREVENTION; DIAGNOSIS; MANIFESTATIONS; TREATMENT; ANATOMY; CURE; DIET; EXERCISE; WEIGHT; SELF-MANAGEMENT; DISEASE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT COMPLICATIONS; PERSON or ORGANIZATION; PROGNOSIS; DISTRIBUTION of a DISEASE in a POPULATION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; RESEARCH; PSYCHOSOCIAL; Own HEALTH RECORD RELATED; OTHER CITATION: Crangle CE, Bradley C, Carlin PF, Esterhay RJ, Harper R, Kearney PM, Lorig K, McCarthy VJC, McTear M, Savage E, Tuttle MS, Wallace JG. (2018, to appear) Exploring Patient Information Needs: A Cross Sectional Study of Questions on Type 2 Diabetes. PLOS ONE