scholarly journals Opinions of healthcare leaders on the barriers and challenges of using social media in Saudi Arabian healthcare settings

2021 ◽  
pp. 100543
Author(s):  
Maha Albaalharith ◽  
Fahad Alanezi ◽  
Arwa Althumairi ◽  
Afnan Aljaffary ◽  
Asma Alfayez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Healthcare Leaders

Married Couples’ Perception of the Excessive Use of SocialMedia and its Impact on Marital Problems in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1A) ◽  
pp. 61-94
Author(s):  
Nashmi Alanazi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Marital Relationships ◽  
Marital Problems ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
The Common ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Abstract: This study explores married couples’ perception of the effects of using social media on marital relationships in Saudi Arabian society. The study discusses the growing use of social media, the common applications used, the reasons why married couples use social media, and the potential marital problems caused by the excessive use of social media. These issues are explored through the viewpoints of married couples living in Saudi Arabia. An online-based questionnaire was used to collect data, and the data sample comprised 1,226 married Saudi citizens; 55.7% male and 44.3% female. The data was analyzed using SPSS. The results show that the use of social media is common among married couples in Saudi Arabia, and that the majority use social media excessively. WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat are the most common applications used. The study also finds that married couples use social media for a number of different purposes, including communicating with family and friends, keeping up to date with celebrity and social media influencers’ news, as well as sharing photos and videos with others. Finally, spouses think that their partner’s excessive use of social media can cause marital problems, including the feelings of jealousy, the neglect of family responsibilities, the weakening of interpersonal communication, and the feelings of mistrust. Keywords: Social Media, Excessive Use of Social Media, and Marital Problems.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Rachel F. Seidman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Feminist Work

Seidman describes the origins of the social media called Who Needs Feminism and how that led her to undertake oral history interviews with feminist activists around the United States. She explains that her focus is on people who came of age during and after the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s. Her interviews are all people who earn their living or center their major activist commitments and actions in feminist work, and include non-profit leaders, writers, journalists, philanthropists, labor unionists¬¬, budding politicians, media professionals, and students. They share a fundamental belief that women still face barriers and challenges based on their gender, and that laws, policies, attitudes and behaviors need to change in order to reach the goal of gender equity. She discusses narrators general rejection of the construct different “waves” of feminism; how the rise of social media as has reshaped feminist activism in both positive and negative ways, with special attention to Twitter and tensions within the movement that arise there; feminists’ goals and strategies; and how these interviews reveal the different ways that feminism has unfolded across the life arc of her interviewees. Seidman argues these interviews help explain the rise of the Women’s March on Washington and the #MeToo movement.

scholarly journals Trust and respect in the patient-clinician relationship: preliminary development of a new scale

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Crits-Christoph ◽  
Agnes Rieger ◽  
Averi Gaines ◽  
Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Graded Response ◽  
Latent Dimension

Abstract Background Trust and respect may be an important component of client-provider relationships. This study aimed to develop and report preliminary psychometric analyses of a new brief measure to evaluate a patient’s level of trust and respect for their clinician. The scale was designed to be applicable in multiple healthcare contexts, with a particular focus on mental healthcare. Methods Adult patients completed the study survey in an academic outpatient psychiatric clinic waiting room. Classical and Item Response Theory (IRT) analyses were utilized to examine the adequacy of scale items. Validity was examined in relation to the patient-therapist alliance and to willingness to share private information (social media content) with one’s clinician. Results Beginning with 10 items, a final 8-item version of the measure was created with an internal consistency reliability of .91. Principal components analysis indicated that the scale was best viewed as capturing one overall dimension. A Graded Response Model IRT model indicated that all items contributed information on the latent dimension, and all item curves were not flat at any region. The correlation of the trust/respect total score with the alliance was .53 when respect-related items were deleted from the alliance score. The trust/respect scale was significantly associated with patient willingness to share social media posts with their clinician but the alliance was not. Conclusions The brief measure of patient trust and respect towards their clinician was unidimensional, showed good internal consistency, and was not redundant with existing measures of the alliance. The scale has the potential to be used in a wide variety of healthcare settings.

scholarly journals On the Value of Social Media in Healthcare: A Qualitative Exploration of Uses and Affordances (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chukwuma Ukoha ◽  
Andrew Stranieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Uses And Gratification Theory ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Context Of Use

BACKGROUND Social media is increasingly used by healthcare providers. However, despite the growing adoption of the application in healthcare settings, the various contexts of use and the value proposition in each context are not well understood. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the uses of social media in healthcare settings and the value proposition in each context of use, using a qualitative methodology. The affordances of social media and how healthcare providers appropriate social media for health-related activities are also explored from a Uses and Gratification Theory perspective. METHODS This study is an exploratory qualitative research study. Australian healthcare providers that use social media were contacted to participate in the study. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and the transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis, to identify common themes expressed across participants. RESULTS Nine contexts of use of healthcare social media emerged: professional networking, harnessing patient feedback, public health promotion, professional education, patient education, organizational promotion, crowdsourcing, research, and patient collaboration. Results indicates that healthcare providers are not passive users of information systems, rather, they make conscious decisions regarding if, when and how to use social media. Thus, healthcare providers use social media because they believe that it will help them realize the gratification or value they seek. CONCLUSIONS This study conclude that the value of social media in healthcare lie in its potential to support various activities in healthcare settings. However, its value proposition varies depending on context of use.

Learning English With Texting on Social Media

2018 ◽  
pp. 240-260
Author(s):  
Hong-Chi Shiau ◽  
Catherine Hua Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Different Cultures

Social media has induced substantial growth of various cultural contacts, resulting in a great variation of uses in English. In light of the popularity of new social media, contacts of people from different cultures have been changed from predominant face-to-face encounters to instantaneous communication. This case study examines how Taiwanese students relate their ESL learning experiences to the use of social media and how their uses help transform these ESL students' gender/ethnic identities during study abroad. Adopting an ethnographic research approach, the results suggest some barriers and challenges those ESL students face during the time abroad, both linguistically but also in terms of intercultural friendship. Pedagogical implications and recommendations are made on how to more effectively using social media in developing linguistic and intercultural competence in the context of study abroad.

Learning English as a Second Language through Social Media: Saudi Arabian Tertiary Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Ali Al Mubarak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Saudi Arabian Students ◽  
Learning English

This paper aims to identify the role of social media in learning English as a second language among Saudi Arabian students. Four year students majoring B A in English at Al Ardh college of Science and Arts for girls in Jazan University were identified as the participants of this study. The instrument of this study is a comprehensive questionnaire, which is constructed in order to explore the students’ perceptions and attitudes on using social media for English language learning. It is found that majority of the participants use social media to enhance their communication skills. Moreover, the result revealed that collaborative learning that are embedded in a social media may help improve learning activities which in turn leads to the success of learning English as a second language. Apart from that, some of the problems encountered when using social media and combined group work in the learning and teaching of English as a second language at Tertiary level are also highlighted. Most importantly, the students agreed that social media has by and large affected in their English language learning skills. 

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