Dissemination Of Medical Information Research Articles

Media in information dissemination: A study of how the pandemic changed communication behaviours of students at King Saud University

Media in information dissemination: A study of how the pandemic changed communication behaviours of students at King Saud University

How Do People Decide on Getting Vaccinated? Evaluating the COVID-19 Vaccination Program through the Lens of Social Capital Theory

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economies at a scale unprecedented in recent history, and vaccination is deemed the only option to ultimately halt its spread. However, vaccine hesitancy remains a global issue that must be addressed. If left unaddressed, it will impede the recovery of both the economy and public health following the pandemic. To better understand the issue, on the premise that individuals have layers of social ties to achieve common goals, social capital theory is proposed to examine the social connections associated with vaccine acceptance. A case study of the Republic of the Philippines’ vaccination program, in the form of an online survey involving 430 participants, was conducted using logistic binomial regression to analyze the data. Findings reveal that people’s vaccination decisions are influenced by their perceptions of their social ties regarding the vaccines, such as the perceptions one’s social ties’ trust in the vaccines, safety of use, benefits vaccines can offer, the role of media in information dissemination, and the influence of social networks. Insights regarding these findings are also discussed.

Introducing The Creation of A Free Website Paud Unit in Pasarwajo Subdistrict

The general purpose of this activity is to assist the PAUD unit to find out how to make website which is a medium of information dissemination and communication between paud units and related parties. With the PAUD unit website, there are several benefits, including being present in providing positive content for the public to realize a healthy internet, encouraging paud units to present positive and creative paud unit activity information, child guardians and the public can know various things about PAUD units directly, and foster public confidence in paud units. Kec.Pasarwajo there are many PAUD units both public and private. Implementation of assistance in 14 kindergartens of Pasarwajo Subdistrict. The problem does not yet have a PAUD unit website. So it is considered necessary to carry out assistance to paud units, especially in pasarwajo subdistrict. The activity begins with exposure to free website creation through wordpress and continues with direct practice assistance. The results of the activity showed that paud units in pasarwajo district of buton regency with participants of PAUD unit operators totaling 14 PAUD units in pasarwajo districts had been able to create a free website through wordpress. In addition, assistance has an impact on the spirit of operators in pasarwajo sub-district.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), The Media And Security Challenges In Nigeria

The topic of this study titled ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI), the media and security challenges in Nigeria’ is a theoretical paper. To carry out this study phenomenological method in qualitative research was used. The work was guided by three (3) objectives, one of which is to ascertain the role of the media in awareness creation on artificial intelligence. Two (2) theories namely: agenda setting theory and value change theory were used. The paper delved into - application of AI in emerging terrorist sophistication, role of the media in information dissemination, challenges of deploying AI to curb the excesses of herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. Four (4) recommendations were proffered, one of which was that the media should continue to create awareness on the use of AI in combating farmers/herders conflicts and Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.

Interventions aimed at improving health care equity for d/Deaf patients: a systematic review

Abstract Background d/Deaf people suffer from inequitable access to care and health information, which results in worse health literacy and poorer mental and physical health compared to hearing populations. Various interventions aimed at improving health equity for d/Deaf people exist in the scientific literature but have to be systematically analysed. The purpose of this systematic literature review was to obtain a global overview of what we know about these interventions. Methods Medline Ovid SP, Embase, CINAHL EBSCO, PsycINFO Ovid SP, Central - Cochrane Library Wiley and Web of Science were searched for relevant studies on access to health care, interventions and health education for d/Deaf people following PRISMA-equity guidelines. The outcomes of interest were interventions aimed at achieving equitable care access to health information for d/Deaf people. Results Forty-eight studies were analysed. Four main categories of interventions emerged: 1) interventions addressing direct clinical care, 2) health technology-based interventions, 3) interventions focused on patient education, and 4) interventions focused on health care provider education. Among them, access to sign language interpretation or to culturally and linguistically adapted means of communication, use of communication media such as sign language video for the dissemination of medical information, and increasing use of technology (telemedicine, videoconferencing) were effective to strengthen equity in the care of d/Deaf people. Moreover, involving d/Deaf individuals in the conceptualization, creation, implementation and evaluation of interventions seemed to be imperative. Conclusions A multi-pronged approach, using a combination of interventions that improve health literacy among d/Deaf patients and promote health care providers' awareness of communication barriers and cultural sensitivity show promise in achieving more equitable care for d/Deaf patients, but more widespread research is needed. Key messages The scientific literature has identified and analysed many tools for improving health care equity for d/Deaf people, but their implementation is lacking. The involvement of d/Deaf people in research and implementation processes is crucial for the development of appropriate interventions.

Recruiting pupils for a school-based eye study in Nigeria: Trust and informed consent concerns

School-based research presents ethical challenges, especially with respect to informed consent. The manner in which pupils and their parents respond to an invitation to participate in research is likely to depend on several factors, including the level of trust between them and the researchers. This paper describes our recruitment and consent process for a school-based eye study in Nigeria. In the course of our study, a particular governmental incident helped to fuel public mistrust in governmental programs and posed a potential threat to our recruitment efforts. The recruitment and consent process included series of advocacy visits to stakeholders in the education sector, highly interactive briefing and health talk sessions in schools, use of telephone services as a medium for information dissemination, age-appropriate study information, parental consent, and pupil assent. Of the 6598 pupils provided with study information, 5723 returned parental consent forms. There were 69 cases of pupils who dissented despite having parental consent. The two leading concerns for the parents/guardians were the rumors regarding a military/governmental-sponsored health campaign and the side-effects of the dilating eye-drops. Nevertheless, our high level of recruitment suggests our recruitment and consent process was successful in assuaging fears for the vast majority of pupils and their parents.

#Neurosurgery: A Temporal and Content Analysis of Academic Neurosurgery on Twitter

Social media has become ubiquitous in modern medicine. Academic neurosurgery has increased adoption to promote individual and departmental accomplishments, engage with patients, and foster collaboration. We sought to quantitatively evaluate the adoption of one of the most used social media platforms, Twitter, within academic neurosurgery. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of Twitter use across 118 academic neurosurgery departments with residency programs in the United States was performed in March 2019 and March 2021. We collated Twitter handles, Doximity residency ranking (a peer-determined ranking system), geographic location, and Twitter demographics (tweets, followers, likes, and tweet content) from before and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Tweet content was characterized by reviewers over a predetermined 6-month period. Linear regression and parametric/nonparametric tests were used for analysis. Departmental accounts grew 3.7 accounts per year between 2009 and 2019 (R2= 0.96), but 43 accounts (130%) were added between 2019 (n= 33) and 2021 (n= 76). This growth, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, changed the model from linear to exponential growth (R2= 0.97). The highest-ranking programs based on Doximity were significantly more likely to have an account (P < 0.001) and have more followers (P < 0.0001). Tweet content analysis revealed prioritization of faculty/resident activity (mean 49.9%) throughout the quartiles. We demonstrate rapid uptake in Twitter use among U.S. academic neurosurgical departments, accelerated by COVID-19. With the impact of COVID-19, it is clear that there will be continued rapid adoption of this platform within neurosurgery, and future studies should explore the outcomes of peer collaboration, patient engagement, and dissemination of medical information.

The Creation of Literature Communication Science Based on Big Data of Internet of Things and the Study of Ancient Chinese Literature Communication

China’s ancient history and culture are well-known in the world. Our educational circles have been emphasizing the importance of the dissemination of traditional literature. Many schools offer the major of literature communication. The study of ancient Chinese literature communication is an issue of the times of cultural communication. Many scholars spend a lot of time studying the dissemination of ancient literature[10]. With the emergence of big data Internet of things technology, people find that the influence of media in information dissemination is huge. On this basis, this paper briefly introduces the relationship between the Internet of things and ancient cultural communication. Finally, this paper puts forward the theory of ancient literature communication.

The danger of “fake news”: how using social media for information dissemination can inhibit the ethical decision making process

ABSTRACT Social media is becoming increasingly embedded in people’s daily lives. These virtual spaces are now regularly used as a tool for information dissemination. Drawing on the moral intensity literature combined with uses and gratifications theory, this research explores how using social media to consume information can affect the ethical decision-making process. This study compares the influence of two online media dissemination formats – an online news article and social media discussion thread – on individuals’ ethical perceptions and decisions. Results indicate that social media usage has an effect on perceptions of social consensus, problem recognition, and ethical sensemaking. Overall, Social media is shown to inhibit ethical decision-making when used as an information dissemination tool.

KNOWLEDGE, AWARENESS AND PERCEPTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AMONG AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE STUDENTS IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addresses the global challenges we face and is related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice. The goals interconnect and each goal and target must be achieved by 2030. The study contributes to providing insights into the knowledge, awareness and perception of Agricultural College Students in Niger State, Nigeria regarding Sustainable Development Goals. A simple random sampling procedure was used in the selection of the five hundred and eighteen (518) respondents. Primary data were obtained on respondents' characteristics and their knowledge, awareness and perception of Sustainable Development Goals through the use of a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. The results showed that the mean age and family size of students were 25 years and 3 persons respectively while 75.5% of the respondents were male. The respondents have a piece of good knowledge (x̅= 3.36), somewhat aware (x̅= 2.91) and neutrally perceived (x̅= 3.45) the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. It was recommended that students should be taught and be educated on the Sustainable Development Goals through teaching, information dissemination media and campaigns to improve their knowledge, create more awareness, develop positive perception and help them understand their roles in the fulfilment of the ongoing Sustainable Development Goals agenda.

Knowledge sharing by clinicians using social media: A case study in Ethiopia

Social media is becoming an integral part of medical information dissemination. Health professionals adopt social media for clinical knowledge sharing and for social networking. However, there is no information specifically about use of social media by Ethiopian clinicians: The purpose of this study is to explore the usage of social media by Ethiopian clinicians for clinical knowledge sharing. The data is collected from seven governmental and non-governmental hospitals. Purposive and snow ball sampling technique was employed to select the participants (N = 150); and 109 clinicians participated in the survey. Multiple linear regression analyses was conducted to identify predictors of social media use by clinicians for knowledge sharing. Among 109 social media users 27 (24.8%) have used social media solely for professional knowledge sharing, 30 (27.5%) for individual social networking, 40(36.7%) for both professional knowledge sharing and social networking, and 5 (4.6%) for other purposes. The vast majority of the respondents frequently use more than one social media tool 39.4% (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube). The study shows that clinicians have started to adopt and harness social media effectively for professional purposes. Clinicians tried to use a variety of social media tools to share clinical knowledge; however, despite the availability of many medically focused virtual communities (professional communities), clinicians did not exploit these sites for clinical knowledge sharing. The participants disclosed that the limitation of social media is lack of quality and reliability. Moreover, lack of social media usage policy or guideline in Ethiopia is the reason that some clinicians do not use social media; thus, building a local professional community platform and developing social media usage policy/guideline is future work.

How the Royal Commission Health Services Program in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is using social media?

Hospitals have used social media to promote health, disseminate health information, communicate with healthcare providers and patients, recruit staff, and advertise health services, among other objectives. The objective of this research was to investigate how social media platforms are used by the staff of the Royal Commission Health Services Program in Jubail (RCHSP-J), Saudi Arabia. A descriptive cross-sectional study was utilized to investigate the use of social media in the RCHPS-J. The study was conducted in two stages. During the first stage, data were collected through online searches to detect the general characteristics of the RCHSP-J and the operation of its website. In the second stage, a mixed (quantitative and qualitative) web-based questionnaire was designed and distributed to the staff of this organization to detect their views on the use of the social media program implemented in this institution. The online search revealed that the RCHSP-J was a secondary general hospital consisting of three primary healthcare centers. The most popular social media used by the participants in the RCHPS-J was Twitter (48%). The respondents considered that social media platforms facilitated communication (23%), helped to disseminate information about medical advances (20%), provided low-cost advertising support (11%), and improved the reputation of the hospital (28%). The participants thought that the main limitations of the social media program at the RCHPS-J were financial restrictions and lack of human resources (17%), limited awareness about the use of the social media program (17%), and concerns about security and privacy issues (46%). The results indicated that the use of social networks in the Royal Commission Health Services Program in Jubail (RCHSP-J) was beneficial from many points of view, but some limitations prevented the effective use of these platforms to promote the delivery of better health services. In this sense, it is necessary to develop a plan aimed to provide the social media program with sufficient financial and human resources and implement a security system to protect the privacy and confidentiality of data. It is also essential to raise awareness of the staff about the importance of social networks in improving communication, social networking, education, dissemination of medical information, and health promotion. The results of this research can help optimize the implementation of social media programs in Saudi Arabian hospitals.

YouTube as a Source of Medical Information About Spinal Cord Stimulation

BackgroundSocial media platforms may play an important role in the dissemination of medical information on interventional pain procedures. This cross-sectional study quantitatively assessed the reliability and quality of information from YouTube regarding spinal cord stimulation. Materials and MethodsYouTube was queried on May 20, 2020 using keywords “spinal cord stimulator,” “spinal cord stimulation experience,” and “spinal cord stimulation risks.” The top 50 viewed videos from each search were analyzed. The primary outcome was video quality, which was analyzed using the modified DISCERN (mDISCERN) criteria. ResultsSeventy-nine of 103 (77%) videos were classified as useful. Fifteen of 103 (14%) videos were classified as misleading and contained nonfactual information on spinal cord stimulation. Hospitals, group practices, or physicians produced a greater proportion of useful videos compared to misleading videos (63.3% vs. 26.7%, p = 0.008). Nonmedical independent users produced a greater proportion of misleading videos compared to useful videos (73.3% vs. 16.4%, p < 0.001). Useful videos had significantly higher mDISCERN scores compared to misleading videos (2.6 vs. 1.9, p = 0.009). Nonmedical independent users produced a greater proportion of low-quality videos (mDISCERN score < 3) than high-quality videos (mDISCERN score ≥ 3; 50.8% vs. 2.4%, respectively, p < 0.001). Educational videos from professional pain medicine societies were not captured. ConclusionYouTube is an accessible platform for medical information on spinal cord stimulation, yet a significant amount of nonfactual information is present. As social media platforms continue to gain prominence in health care, future efforts to appraise the quality of medical content delivered to the public are warranted. In addition, reputable sources including professional pain medicine societies should consider collaborating with producers to disseminate high-quality video content that reaches a wider audience.

Influence of community structure on misinformation containment in online social networks

With the emergence of Online Social Networks (OSNs) as an effective medium of information dissemination, its abuse in spreading misinformation has become a great concern to its users. Hence, the misinformation containment problem in various forms has emerged as an important topic of research. In general, given a snapshot of an online social network with a set of misinformed nodes and a budget limiting the maximum number of seed nodes, the goal is to determine a set of seed nodes with the correct information, to contain the misinformation at the earliest. In this paper, we leverage the community structure of the online social network to select the seed nodes statically, independent of the distribution of misinformed nodes for faster misinformation containment with simple one-time computation. We extend the work to include OSNs with overlapped community as well. To the best of our knowledge, so far, ours is the first work where the topology of the OSN has been exploited to combat the spread of misinformation faster. Experiments on real OSNs reveal that the proposed techniques outperform state-of-the-art algorithms significantly in terms of maximum and average infected time, and the point of decline, manifesting the key role of community structure on misinformation containment in a social network. Moreover, the parallel implementations of the proposed algorithms achieve around 10× speed-up over the sequential ones enhancing the scalability of the proposed approach.

YouTube as a source of medical information about epidural analgesia for labor pain

BackgroundLarge gaps remain in our understanding of the role of social media platforms in the dissemination of medical information. This cross-sectional study quantitatively assessed the accuracy and quality of information on YouTube regarding epidural labor analgesia. MethodsYouTube was searched on May 23, 2020 using keywords ‘epidural,’ ‘epidural for labor,’ ‘epidural for pregnancy,’ ‘epidural experience,’ and ‘epidural risks,’ and the top 50 viewed videos from each search were screened. Primary outcomes included the proportion of videos containing non-factual information, and video quality analyzed using the modified DISCERN (mDISCERN) score. ResultsThirteen of 60 (21.7%) videos included non-factual information about epidural analgesia; these videos were viewed more than 16.5 million times (60% of total viewership of the videos analyzed). Mean (standard deviation) mDISCERN score for all included videos was 1.9 (1.3), which is below the threshold for high video-quality. Videos from medical sources (hospitals, medical practices, physicians, other medical professionals) had a higher mDISCERN score compared with videos by non-medical sources (P <0.001). Educational videos from professional societies of obstetrics or obstetric anesthesiology were not captured. ConclusionYouTube is an accessible platform for medical information on epidural labor analgesia, although a significant proportion of videos studied contained non-factual information and presented low video quality. Increased efforts by reputable sources including hospitals, physicians, other medical professionals, and professional societies, to disseminate accurate information, are warranted.

Knowledge, attitudes and bite prevention practices and estimation of productivity of vector breeding sites using a Habitat Suitability Score (HSS) among households with confirmed dengue in the 2014 outbreak in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

BackgroundThe frequency and magnitude of dengue epidemics has increased dramatically throughout the tropics in the past 40 years due to unplanned urbanization, globalization and lack of effective mosquito control. The commercial capital of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, is now experiencing regular dengue outbreaks. Three dengue serotypes have been detected in Dar es Salaam (DNV 1, 2 and 3). Without adequate vector monitoring and control, further outbreaks will certainly occur.Methods/FindingsA case series study followed 97 individuals with confirmed dengue fever (NS1 and/or IgM on rapid diagnostic test and/or PCR positive) to their households in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam during the 2014 outbreak from a random sample of 202 confirmed cases at Mwananyamala Hospital. Kinondoni wards of Manzese, Mwananyamala, Tandale and Mabibo had the highest number of confirmed cases: 18, 13, 13 and 9 respectively. Individuals were interviewed by questionnaire on dengue prevention practices and houses were inspected for mosquito breeding sites to validate a Habitat Suitability Score (HSS). This is a tool devised to predict the productivity of any potential breeding habitats (PBHs) before the rains begin.There were 12 /312 positive Aedes breeding habitats. Drums/barrels, flowerpots and tyres were the most common breeding habitats. The HSS correctly identified 9/12 of Aedes breeding habitats. Larviciding is already conducted in urban Tanzania for malaria control and the HSS may be a useful means to train individuals on productive Aedes aegypti breeding sites should this program be extended to include dengue control.The population remains poorly informed about dengue transmission and prevention: 22% of respondents said dengue is spread from one person to another and 60% first heard about dengue when already sick. Less than 20% of respondents used personal protection and >80% thought bednets protected against dengue. Mobile phones were owned by almost all individuals followed up and have the potential of being the prime medium for dissemination of information on dengue prevention.

The impact of language on retweeting during acute natural disasters: uncertainty reduction and language expectancy perspectives

PurposeSocial media have increasingly gained credibility as information sources in emergencies. Retweeting or resharing nature has made Twitter a popular medium of information dissemination. The purpose of this article is to enhance our understanding of both linguistic style and content properties (i.e. both affective and informational contents) that drives resharing behavior or virality of disaster messages on Twitter. We investigate this issue in the context of natural disaster crisis.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the authors develop, drawing upon language expectancy and uncertainty reduction theories as an enabling framework, hypotheses about how the language (i.e. style and content) influence resharing behavior. They employ a natural language processing of disaster tweets to examine how the language – linguistic style (concrete and interactive language) and linguistic content (information- and affect-focused language) – affects resharing behavior on Twitter during natural disasters. To examine the effects of both linguistic style and content factors on virality, a series of negative binomial regressions were conducted, particularly owing to the highly skewed count data.FindingsOur analysis of tweets from the 2013 Colorado floods shows that resharing disasters tweets increases with the use of concrete language style during acute emergencies. Interactive language is also positively associated with retweet frequency. In addition, neither positive nor negative emotional tweets drive down resharing during acute crises, while information-focused language content has a significantly positive effect on virality.Practical implicationsAgencies for public safety and disaster management or volunteer organizations involved in disseminating crisis and risk information to the public may leverage the impacts of the linguistic style and language content through the lens of our research model. The findings encourage practitioners to focus on the role of linguistic style cues during acute disasters. Specifically, from the uncertainty reduction perspective, using concrete language in the disaster tweets is the expected norm, leading to a higher likelihood of virality. Also, interactively frame disaster tweets are more likely to be diffused to a larger number of people on Twitter.Originality/valueThe language that people use offer important psychological cue to their intentions and motivations. However, the role of language on Twitter has largely been ignored in this crisis communication and few prior studies have examined the relationship between language and virality during acute emergencies. This article explains the complex and multifaceted nature of information resharing behavior using a multi-theoretical approach – including uncertainty reduction and language expectancy theory – to understand effects of language style and content cues on resharing behavior in the context of natural crisis events.

Animasi Tata Cara Penyelamatan Bencana Gempa Bumi Untuk Anak - Anak

The National Agency for the Control of Britain (BNPB) noted that 515 people died from the earthquake in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). Seeing this problem, the author wants to make an animation of earthquake disaster relief procedures that will be used by the BPBD as an additional medium for socializing and delivering information to increase public knowledge about procedures for saving earthquake disasters, especially children.&#x0D; In the process of making this animation using the pipeline method which includes three stages, namely the first stage of pre-production, the second stage of production The third stage of post-production. After doing all the stages are expected to be able to produce animation procedures for earthquake disaster rescue for children. So that this animated video can be used as a media for information dissemination or information delivery by the West Nusa Tenggara Province BPBD office which is more effective for introducing elementary school students. To determine the feasibility of the animation that was made, a beta test was conducted by submitting questionnaires to 30 respondents. The results obtained are animated procedures for rescuing earthquake disasters for children to be used as media for information dissemination or delivery of information by the West Nusa Tenggara Province BPBD office.

Unhindered medical information access: Health information outreach, the platform for citizen health empowerment

This paper focused on theoretical health information outreach which is a pivotal role of the medical librarian to citizenship health empowerment. Dissemination of medical information and access is the service required as the predictor of unhindered medicalinformation. Accessing the information as means of the outreach is where the problems lie. This article identified approaches to information outreach, its challenges in perspective and strategies to enhance health information outreach by medical librarians using the resources in the Libraries as a key to citizenry healthy nation.

Contrasting fake news in oncology: The first declaration of good communication.

e19231 Background: Nowadays, in the “era of technology”, websites, online journals and social media give access to an extraordinary amount of medical information; moreover, many patients and their families employ websites and social media searching for additional clarifications about their own malignancies and the prescribed treatments. Misleading news are often disseminated generating false expectations, exaggerated anxiety and confusion even on officially supported websites. In oncology setting, disinformation is perhaps more deleterious than in other fields, with a considerable impact on single patients as well as on families and, more in general, on Public Health. In order to promote the best interaction between the world of health and the world of communication, a table of experts was established with the aim to draft a shared document identifying strategies to overcome barriers between communication and health care as well as to propose common criteria for an effective dissemination of medical information. Methods: On the basis of the "consensus conference" method in the RAND/UCLA variant, a modified version of Delphi methodology, a literature research has been conducted with the aim to select studies related to the best practices applied to health journalism regarding oncology setting. Results: Sixteen articles met the inclusion criteria, from which 72 recommendations were extracted and submitted to experts in communication and health professionals included in the technical table. After the evaluation of this panel, 57 recommendations scored more than 7 representing the selected statements shared together by communication experts and health professionals. This consensus and the drawn up shared document represent a concrete attempt to found a renewed and strategic alliance between health and communication operators in order to produce useful and reproducible indications for an effective dissemination of medical information. Conclusions: As the “American Declaration of Independence”, our “Declaration of Good Communication” has identified high-impact recommendations for the best management of patients, providing simple but fundamental concepts and recommendations about effective communication especially in oncology setting.