In this platform people share their stories, ask for help or advice on their, their friends or family.
We analyzed 821 comments with the keywords: Domestic Violence & Domestic Abuse.
Sentiment Analysis
64%
31%
From the Sentiment Analysis, we can clearly identify that the positive sentiment is people wanting to help a friend.
As for the negative besides the words "abusive", "abuse" people are asking for help with boyfriend and being the main keyword of who the abusive could be.
Since this analysis is not accurate enough, we again ran the Topic Modeling to truly identify what topics are the victims interested in, their issues, and what they look for when sharing their stories.
"Experiencing violence from father - affecting me daily"
Anonymous Reddit Testimony
Main Topics Conversation:
1. Family abuse testimony: Keywords like "child", "kid", "son", "sister", "mother", "father" and "relationship" and not only telling their story but seeking help, also since because of the nature of the keywords, we can conclude that the author is not a fully grown adult but a young one or a teenager living in abuse.
2. People seeking help for a friend: Seeking help from a friend and quoting abuse on how to help them leave this situation.
3.Partner Abuse: Description of abuse caused by Alcohol - describing partner and relationship
4.How abuse started: Talking about a third party: "Friend"
5.Description of abuse: Violence, attack and drunken abuse: Also related to Partner abuse
6.Violent abuse: Describing a trauma that leads to an injury, quoting "hospital" and "death"
7.Surviving statement: second-word being a survivor and describing the people involved: family and relationships, also what stands out is the third-word "money" which can be directly related to surviving abuse by having the means on how to move from it as well as therapy.
8.Drugs and physical abuse: Also can be related to the family since there is a mention of "Father".
Main Insights:
Organizations and NGO should have initiatives and communication through Reddit since it is a space in which people share their testimonies, which is a channel where the initiatives can be communicated to the right people.
The main insights from the topics are:
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Family Abuse is the main type.
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Friends want to help friends, seeking advice on how to do so
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Abuse related to alcohol is related to partner
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Testimonies about how abuse starting talking in third party can help NGO´s with the communication on start of abuse talking about a friend.
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Surviving statements have words related to money and therapy.
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This social media can also be a way of communicating safety for people who are in close proximity with abusers similar to this pandemic.
