Patient perception of spinal cord injury through social media: An analysis of 703 Instagram and 117 Twitter posts.

IntroductionIncreased social media usage has allowed many individuals and patients to connect and influence their patient population through providing their own opinions and health experiences. Conducting patient feedback surveys serves...

Patient sentiment regarding stroke: Analysis of 2,992 social media posts

The rise of social media has allowed for individuals and patients to connect with each other and influence patient behavior. This study aimed to improve our understanding of the patients' experience with cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) via social media. Instagram and Twitter were searched using terms of ("cavernoma," "cavernous malformations," "cavernous angioma," or "cav mal"). Public Instagram posts tagged with "#cavernoma" and "@cavernoma" identified 327 posts that directly included a patient's own experience. Twitter posts that included "#cavernoma" and "@cavernoma" were searched, yielding 75 after eliminating those that did not pertain to the patient's own experience. The posts and tweets were coded for relevant themes related to their experience with the disease. Overall, more patients are using Instagram (n = 327) over Twitter (n = 84) to share their personal experience with CCM with a trend for male patients to use Twitter more compared to females with a female predominance in Instagram. A total of 277 of 327 (84.7%) Instagram posts and 67 of 84 (89.3%) Twitter posts were made after the patient's surgery. The most common theme on Instagram was focused on the postoperative rehabilitation process and mobility support (52.0 and 24.5%, respectively). Other common themes present on Twitter and Instagram were recounting symptoms and complications and life satisfaction (26.0 and 24.2%, respectively). Cavernoma patients prior to surgery were more likely to discuss on Instagram their symptoms (p = 0.001), fear of bleeding (p < 0.001), and mental health (p = 0.014). Postoperatively, cavernoma patients were more likely to discuss disability than they were preoperatively (p = 0.001). Social media platforms offer a communication tool for patients with CCM patients to share their experience with other patients and the general public and portrays their personal experience with CCM. These platforms allow for physicians to better understand the patient experience following cavernoma surgery.

Social Media in Pediatric Surgery: Patient Perceptions and Utilization

Background: E-Professionalism is the behaviour and communications which encompasses traditional characteristics of professionalism in an online setting resulted from increased use of Social Media. Social media(SM) is a form of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content. The present study aims to assess the utilization of social media and e-professionalism in nursing students and examine the association between utilization of social media and selected socio-demographic variables. Methodology: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study design was used. The study was carried out among all the nursing students of Gandaki medical college, College of nursing sciences. Hence census method was adopted and the data were collected using a semi-structured self administered questionnaire from 25th October 2020 to 10th November 2020. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) was used for quantitative data analysis and inferential statistics (Chi-square) were used to find out the association between utilization of social media and selected sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents. Findings: The study concluded that almost all of the students use the social media and 97.2% of them had good utilization of social media. More than half (69.4)% agreed that usage of social media for research has helped improve their grades, 44.4% agreed that social media have impacted GPA negatively, and 35.2% had neutral idea on improving communication skills. Likewise, 66.7% agreed that social media use had an adverse effect on their concentration. However 73.1% had poor knowledge on e-professionalism. No significant association was seen between knowledge level and selected demographical variables. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study almost all of the students used social media. Social media was excessively utilized to get information regarding current social events. Knowledge on e-professionalism was however relatively poor even though the utilization of social media was high. Hence an appropriate guideline on e-professionalism should be implemented.

Aims: The purpose of this study is to identify the profile of the respondents’ most used social media networks; determine the level of social media utilization in terms of educational, networking and entertainment tool; to determine the students’ level of creative writing skills in terms of content, convention, and vocabulary; find the significant relationship between the utilization of social media and the creative writing skills of students.&#x0D; Study Design: Descriptive Survey Research Method with Quantitative Approach.&#x0D; Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at Agusan National High School in Cagayan de Or City's East 1 District during the school year: 2022.&#x0D; Methodology: The respondents were Two hundred thirty-two (232) students in Grade 10 at Agusan National High School in Cagayan de Oro City's East 1 District. This study used a self-created survey that underwent validity and reliability testing.&#x0D; Results: The results showed that the most utilized social media site was Facebook, while Twitter was Less Utilized interpreted as Very Low. On the students' overall utilization of social media, utilization as a networking tool got the highest, while utilization as an educational tool was the lowest. The students' overall creative writing skills, Vocabulary was the highest, while the content was the lowest. Students’ most used social media sites have a significant relationship with their creative writing skills. Thus, the null hypothesis is rejected. Students’ extent of utilization of social media sites has a significant relationship to their creative writing skills. Thus, the null hypothesis is rejected.&#x0D; Conclusions: The study employed a descriptive survey research method, which included a quantitative approach to collecting numerical data through a questionnaire. It also used frequency and percentage distribution, mean and standard deviation. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient was also used to find the relationships among the variables. The results showed that students visit and utilize Facebook and their social media accounts Most of the Time, while their creative writing skills were also at Most of the Time or High Level. It was concluded that students' utilization of social media is significantly correlated to their creative writing skills; thus, it is recommended that the utilization of social media be guided and monitored for proper and correct utilization.

Utilization of social media is an integral part of Indian youth today. Over utilization of social media, has captured the attention of youth entirely. The dependency of youths on the social media has reached at such level that, without social media, every young person cannot think about the direction of their growth. Dependency of youth on social media is now leading to addiction. Methodology: Through the several studies, it is widely accepted that over utilization of social media has profound negative influence on the Indian youth. Simultaneously, social media have also some positive effects on the life of youth. This study highlights the main purposes of utilizing social media by the youth, and attempt has been made to find out the time spent on browsing social networking sites by the youth. Results: The result of study shows that, over utilization of social media leads youth towards addiction. Conclusion: This study.

In the digital era, the utilization of social media is very important. In the world of education, social media has been massively used since the COVID-19 pandemic, where learning is mainly done online. This study aims to examine the utilization of social media in a flipped classroom to develop blended learning in elementary schools in rural areas. This study uses a quantitative approach with a descriptive research type. The utilization of social media for learning media makes it easier for someone to understand certain learning materials because wherever and whenever we can access the learning media and can even be repeated. In addition, through social media, students and teachers can also share learning information easily. The utilization of social media for learning is very necessary even in the post-pandemic era because science and technology will continue to develop hand in hand. The utilization of social media is the right step in achieving an interactive and quality learning process. The existence of social media platforms makes it easier for students to explore information and knowledge, as well as play an active role, such as asking questions and digging deeper into what they don't know.

Once the university started using social media more, the researchers started focusing more on how social media applications were being adopted and what motivated it without being limited to classrooms only. There is a need to conduct further research about how the utilization of social media to teach in university affects education. Considering this, delving deeper into the educational outcomes and a research model related to the experiences and results of social media use is the aim of this research. Apart from that, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) research that deals with the behavior intention of using social networking media, perceived playfulness, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness has been used for testing what affects the utilization of social media for online-teaching in higher education of United Arab Emirates. There was an assessment of 580 quantitative responses given by university students whose classroom sessions involved using social media. In order to predict the behavioral intention of a pupil for using social networking media for e-learning in the higher education institutions, it is possible to take some help from the factors such as perceived playful-ness, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, as per the partial least squares (PLS) and machine learning evaluation. The suggested model helps teachers to get to know more about how classroom sessions can become more productive through social media usage.

Social media (SoMe) is ubiquitous, but its adoption and utilization by infectious diseases (ID) divisions are poorly characterized in the United States. A systematic search of US ID fellowship/division Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts occurred in November-December 2021. Social media account and program characteristics, post frequency and content, and other measures of SoMe adoption and utilization were recorded and compared between adult and pediatric programs. Posts were thematically categorized as social, promotional, educational, recruitment, or other. Of 222 ID programs identified, 158 (71.2%) were adult and 64 (28.8%) pediatric. Seventy (31.5%) Twitter, 14 (6.3%) Facebook, and 14 (6.3%) Instagram accounts were identified from US programs. Twitter accounts were associated with larger programs and higher match rates. More adult than pediatric programs had Twitter accounts (37.3% vs 17.2%, P = .004); utilization was similar between adult and pediatric programs. Most Twitter posts were educational (1653 of 2859, 57.8%); most Facebook posts were promotional (68 of 128, 53.1%); and most Instagram posts were social (34 of 79, 43%). Facebook was the earliest adopted SoMe platform, but Twitter and Instagram have more recent growth. Rate of Twitter account creation increased from 1.33 accounts/month in the year before March 2020 (coronavirus disease [COVID] pandemic declaration) to 2.58 accounts/month in the year after March 2020 (P = .18). Social media remains underutilized across ID divisions, but COVID-19 and virtual recruiting may have influenced recent account creation. Twitter was the most frequently used ID program SoMe platform. Social media may benefit ID programs in recruitment and amplification of their trainees, faculty, and specialty.

Use of Social Media by Rural Youth in India: A Boon or a Bane

The formulation of the problem in this research was to find out whether there was any difference of demographic segmentation based on social media utilization in Kelurahan Plaju Ulu Palembang. The purpose of this research was to know the difference of demographic segmentation based on social media utilization in Kelurahan Plaju Ulu Palembang. The type of the study used comparative research. The variable that were compared in this research were demographic segmentation based on social media utilization. The population in this study was the community in Kelurahan Plaju Ulu Palembang consisting of Rw 01, Rw 05, Rw 09 and Rw 16 that was 1169 as the sample with Cluster Sampling technique. Primary data was needed as the basis analysis, while the data collection technique was a questionnaire. The analysis technique used Chi Square. The result of the study through Kai Squares test (X2) showed that there was the difference of demographic segmentation based on social media utilization in Kelurahan Plaju Ulu Palembang, but only included: (1) job difference based on frequency of use, (2) age difference based on frequency and usage user, (3) and the difference in revenue based on usage user. From these results it was also known that there ware no difference, which included: (1) gender based on frequency, utilization and type of social media, (2) occupation based on utilization and type of social media, (3) age by type of social media, (4) income based on frequency and type of social media, (5) religion based on frequency, utilization and type of social media.

IntroductionSocial media has created opportunities for children to gather social support online (Blackwell et al., 2016; Gonzales, 2017; Jackson, Bailey, & Foucault Welles, 2018; Khasawneh, Rogers,...

The “Buzz” About Tinnitus: A Social Media Study

Patients increasingly utilize online physician review websites (PRWs) and social media to inform healthcare-related decisions. This provides neurosurgeons with opportunities for increased patient engagement. And despite the growing use of social media among neurosurgeons, the relationship between social media utilization and online reviews remains unknown. The goal of this study was to characterize the relationship between social media utilization and PRW ratings across academic neurosurgery departments. Social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram) of academic neurosurgery departments were identified. Online reviews for individual faculty were obtained from Healthgrades, Vitals, WebMD, and Google. Reviews were aggregated to identify the total number of reviews per department, to generate a composite departmental rating, and to calculate a summed departmental score. US News & World Report (USNWR) and Doximity rankings were recorded for each department. Social media utilization by individual neurosurgeons and associated ratings were investigated within the departments with the highest social media utilization. Seventy-eight percent of academic neurosurgery departments utilized social media. The most prevalent platform was YouTube (49.1%), followed by Twitter (46.5%), Facebook (38.6%), and Instagram (16.7%). Higher patient ratings on PRWs were associated with the utilization of YouTube (p = 0.048) or Twitter (p = 0.02). The number of social media platforms utilized demonstrated a significant, positive correlation with patient ratings (p = 0.006) and summed patient ratings (p = 0.048). Although USNWR (p = 0.02) and Doximity (p = 0.0008) rankings correlated with patient ratings, only the number of social media platforms utilized remained a significant predictor of patient ratings on multivariate analysis (p = 0.0001). Thirty-one percent of academic neurosurgeons from departments with high social media utilization were active on social media. The most prevalent social media platform among individual neurosurgeons was Twitter (27.4%), followed by Instagram (8.4%), Facebook (4.9%), and YouTube (2.2%). Higher summed patient scores were associated with individual neurosurgeon utilization of YouTube (p = 0.04), Facebook (p < 0.0001), and Instagram (p = 0.01). Increased social media utilization among neurosurgeons was correlated with a greater number of patient reviews (p = 0.006) and higher summed patient scores (p = 0.003). On multivariate analysis, only Facebook use remained a significant predictor of the number of patient reviews received (p = 0.002) and summed patient satisfaction scores (p < 0.001). An increased social media presence is associated with higher ratings on PRWs. As neurosurgeons continue to expand their online presence, they should be aware of the possible impact of social media on online patient reviews.