scholarly journals Understanding Social Media Use and Engagement Among Dermatology Patients to Inform Dermatological Prevention and Care in Vietnam: Cross-sectional Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sau Huu Nguyen ◽  
Giang Thu Vu ◽  
Long Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Cuong Tat Nguyen ◽  
Thu Hoai Thi Le ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Social Media Engagement

BACKGROUND Social media has emerged as a common source of dermatological information. Monitoring the patterns of social media use and engagement is important to counteract the limitations of social media. However, evidence in Vietnamese dermatology patients is lacking. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore social media use and engagement by dermatology patients and to identify factors associated with social media use and engagement. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted with 519 participants at the Vietnam National Hospital of Dermatology and Venereology during September to November 2018. Data about sociodemographic characteristics, social media use, and social media engagement were collected. Multivariate logistic and tobit regression models were used to identify factors associated with social media use and engagement. RESULTS Interest in information about “cosmetic, beauty, and skincare techniques” was the greatest (184/519, 46.2%). The mean engagement score was 8.4 points (SD 2.4 points). Female patients were more likely to use social media (odds ratio [OR] 2.23, 95% CI 1.23-4.06) and be interested dermatological information on social media (OR 3.09, 95% CI 1.35-7.09). Women also had higher social media engagement scores (coefficient=0.68, 95% CI 0.17-1.18). Higher social media engagement scores were related with Instagram use (coefficient=0.58, 95% CI 0.00-1.15) and higher credibility scores for “family members” (coefficient=0.15, 95% CI 0.03-0.26) and “dermatology companies” (coefficient=0.22, 95% CI 0.04-0.39). CONCLUSIONS This study discovered high social media usage among dermatology patients. However, only moderate utilization and credibility levels were reported regarding the use of social media as a source of dermatological information. More efforts should focus on involving dermatologists in the development of individualized information on social media targeting specific groups of dermatology patients.

scholarly journals Understanding Social Media Use and Engagement Among Dermatology Patients to Inform Dermatological Prevention and Care in Vietnam: Cross-sectional Study

10.2196/13424 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. e13424
Author(s):  
Sau Huu Nguyen ◽  
Giang Thu Vu ◽  
Long Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Cuong Tat Nguyen ◽  
Thu Hoai Thi Le ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Social Media Engagement

Background Social media has emerged as a common source of dermatological information. Monitoring the patterns of social media use and engagement is important to counteract the limitations of social media. However, evidence in Vietnamese dermatology patients is lacking. Objective This study aimed to explore social media use and engagement by dermatology patients and to identify factors associated with social media use and engagement. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted with 519 participants at the Vietnam National Hospital of Dermatology and Venereology during September to November 2018. Data about sociodemographic characteristics, social media use, and social media engagement were collected. Multivariate logistic and tobit regression models were used to identify factors associated with social media use and engagement. Results Interest in information about “cosmetic, beauty, and skincare techniques” was the greatest (184/519, 46.2%). The mean engagement score was 8.4 points (SD 2.4 points). Female patients were more likely to use social media (odds ratio [OR] 2.23, 95% CI 1.23-4.06) and be interested dermatological information on social media (OR 3.09, 95% CI 1.35-7.09). Women also had higher social media engagement scores (coefficient=0.68, 95% CI 0.17-1.18). Higher social media engagement scores were related with Instagram use (coefficient=0.58, 95% CI 0.00-1.15) and higher credibility scores for “family members” (coefficient=0.15, 95% CI 0.03-0.26) and “dermatology companies” (coefficient=0.22, 95% CI 0.04-0.39). Conclusions This study discovered high social media usage among dermatology patients. However, only moderate utilization and credibility levels were reported regarding the use of social media as a source of dermatological information. More efforts should focus on involving dermatologists in the development of individualized information on social media targeting specific groups of dermatology patients.

Social media use and parent–child relationship: A cross‐sectional study of adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 793-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugues Sampasa‐Kanyinga ◽  
Gary S. Goldfield ◽  
Mila Kingsbury ◽  
Zahra Clayborne ◽  
Ian Colman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child

scholarly journals Social Media Use, Addiction and Burnout Levels of Hospital Employees, Effective Factors: A Cross Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Kübra Yildiz Aydin ◽  
Neriman Aydin ◽  
Birgül Özçirpici
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Never Married ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Social Media Addiction ◽  
Hospital Employees

Background: As years passes by, the usage of social media has become an important public health issue. It is known that problematic social media use is related with health problems. With this study, it is aimed to determine the social media use of hospital employees, the relation between social media addiction and burnout levels and to determine effective factors.                                                                                                                 Methods: Target population of the cross-sectional study consists of 2627 person between the ages of 18-60 who is working at a university hospital. Minimum sample size was calculated as 321 and reached up to 323 people. Question form, Burnout Scale and Social Media Addiction Adult Form were applied by interviewing the employees face-to-face between the months of March-April 2019. Results: 80.2% of the participants use social media every day, 63.1% of them use social media mostly at evenings. 94.8% of people mostly connect to social media with their phone. Average time spent daily on social media is 91, 33±87, 89 minutes. Daily social media use is significantly higher in women, university graduates, nurses. There is a significant difference between age groups and between married and never married in terms of average time spent daily on social media. Social media addiction scale score is significantly higher in women, never married persons and in the age group 20-29. Weak correlation was determined between scores of social media addiction scale and burnout levels, and age and time spent on social media.                                                                                                                                         Conclusions: It is determined that social media usage in hospital employees is higher than Turkey’s average and there is a positive relation between scores of social media addiction scale and burnout levels. Providing education to employees in order to reduce social media usage, hanging posters related with how over-usage of social media may lead to burnout.

Social Media Use among United Kingdom Vascular Surgeons: A Cross-Sectional Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 252-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Cochrane ◽  
James J. McDonald ◽  
Richard R.W. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals Association Between Social Media Use and the Acceptance of Covid-19 Vaccination Among the General Population in Saudi Arabia – A Cross-sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar S. Othman ◽  
Abeer Alsuwaidi ◽  
Rafal Aseel ◽  
Reema Alotaibi ◽  
Reem Bablgoom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
General Population ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
To Receive

Abstract BackgroundThe 2019 Coronavirus Disease Pandemic (COVID-19) is a worldwide global epidemic. Although acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination will be a critical step in combating the pandemic, achieving high uptake will be difficult, and potentially made more difficult by social media misinformation. This study aimed to examine the association between social media use and acceptance of receiving COVID-19 vaccine among the general population in Saudi Arabia.MethodologyA cross-sectional study was conducted from June 17 to June 19, 2021 among 504 participants of the general population in Saudi Arabia. The data were collected using a three-part online questionnaire (sociodemographic characteristics, medical and vaccination history, pattern of social media use). ResultsAmong 504 participants who completed the survey, 477 participants were acceptant of the vaccine and 27 were non-accepting. A total of 335 individuals had already received the vaccine, 142 were willing to receive the vaccine and 27 were unwilling. One hundred and thirty participants denied using social media for COVID-19 news. Four factors were found to be significant in influencing vaccine acceptance in univariate analysis: having a chronic condition, believing that infertility is a side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, being concerned about a serious side effect from the vaccine and basing the decision to be vaccinated on social media information. Two of these factors fell away on multivariate analysis: basing the decision on social media information and a belief that vaccination causes infertility, suggesting that the associations are dependent on other factors.Conclusion‏In conclusion, there was no significant independent relationship between social media usage and people's willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.

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