Abstract
Conference abstract from European Telemedicine Conference 2016, Oslo 15-16 November. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Highlights
Social media channels are being used more and more by people with diabetes for exchanging health information, experiences with their chronic condition, and asking and giving advice to their peers[1]
The objective of this study is to describe the nature of the information that is shared on Norwegian diabetes social media groups, and the users’ reactions to these posts
The content and reach of 400 posts were downloaded from 4 different social media platforms: 100 posts each from the Norwegian diabetes patient association’s open Facebook group, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as 100 posts from a diabetes closed Facebook group
Summary
Social media channels are being used more and more by people with diabetes for exchanging health information, experiences with their chronic condition, and asking and giving advice to their peers[1]. Introduction: Social media channels are being used more and more by people with diabetes for exchanging health information, experiences with their chronic condition, and asking and giving advice to their peers[1]. The objective of this study is to describe the nature of the information that is shared on Norwegian diabetes social media groups, and the users’ reactions to these posts.
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