Large Language Models Can Enable Inductive Thematic Analysis of a Social Media Corpus in a Single Prompt: Human Validation Study

Michael S Deiner   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Vlad Honcharov   ^{2, 3 *} , MPH ;   Jiawei Li   ⁴ , MS ;   Tim K Mackey   ^{4, 5} , MAS, PhD ;   Travis C Porco   ⁶ , MPH, PhD ;   Urmimala Sarkar   ^{2, 3} , MPH, MD

¹ Department of Ophthalmology and Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Center for Vulnerable Populations, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁴ S-3 Research, LLC, San Diego, CA, United States

⁵ Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

⁶ Departments of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Global Health Sciences, and Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

*these authors contributed equally