Social Media in Healthcare and Pharma

A model of purchase intention of complementary and alternative medicines: the role of social media influencers' endorsements - PubMed This study provides unique insights introducing new research areas to health literature and offers, new roles for healthcare professionals in this digital era by gaining new skills and competencies required to provide more credible and accurate information about CAMs. The study also highlights the n...

Research on the detection model of mental illness of online forum users based on convolutional network - PubMed Recently, there will be more than 4.62 billion social media users worldwide. A large number of users tend to publish personal emotional dynamics or express opinions on social media. These massive user data provide data support for the development of mental illness detection research and have achieve...

The online language of work-personal conflict - PubMed With the blurring of boundaries in this digital age, there is increasing concern around work-personal conflict. Assessing and tracking work-personal conflict is critical as it not only affects individual workers but is also a vital measure among broader well-being and economic indices. This inductiv...

Social networking and fear of missing out (FOMO) among medical students at University of Khartoum, Sudan 2021 - PubMed An association between SNI and FOMO was found. SNI was not affected by socio-demographic factors except for the monthly income.

Recruitment of participants with pancreatic cancer to a mixed media study for optimal recruitment in an Australasian survey of pancreatic enzyme replacement - PubMed Social media is an effective and efficient method of recruiting people with pancreatic cancer to a national survey. Studies using media to recruit patients may need to include team members with a range of skills.

Patient safety discourse in a pandemic: a Twitter hashtag analysis study on #PatientSafety - PubMed It is clear that various stakeholders, including students, medical practitioners, health organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory bodies, leverage Twitter to rapidly exchange medical information, data on the disease symptoms, and the drug effects. Consequently, there is a need to furt...

A comparative analysis of the COVID-19 Infodemic in English and Chinese: insights from social media textual data - PubMed The COVID-19 infodemic, characterized by the rapid spread of misinformation and unverified claims related to the pandemic, presents a significant challenge. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the COVID-19 infodemic in the English and Chinese languages, utilizing textual data extracted fro...

Parent-child communication about substance use, puberty, s*x, and social media use among Hispanic parents and pre-adolescent children - PubMed The themes that emerged from the interviews were about children's feelings, parents' feelings, communication messages that children received from their parents, and information parents provided to their children during parent-child communication. The results indicate discrepancies between informatio...

Immigrant-critical alternative media in online conversations - PubMed In this work, we explore the role of immigrant-critical alternative media in shaping collective emotions and users' evaluations of the immigration issue, using a conversational approach and an empirical case of Flashback, a prominent Swedish online platform where many immigration-related discussions...

Social media use and health risk behaviours in young people: systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed PROSPERO, CRD42020179766.

Public perceptions of the FDA's marketing authorization of Vuse on Twitter/X - PubMed Public perceptions and discussions on Twitter/X regarding the FDA's Vuse authorization in the US showed that Twitter/X users were more likely to show a negative than a positive attitude with a major concern about health risks.

The impact of Public Health Emergency (PHE) on the news dissemination strength: Evidence from Chinese-Speaking Vloggers on YouTube - PubMed News dissemination plays a vital role in supporting people to incorporate beneficial actions during public health emergencies, thereby significantly reducing the adverse influences of events. Based on big data from YouTube, this research study takes the declaration of COVID-19 National Public Health...

Identification of Emotional Spectrums of Patients Taking an Erectile Dysfunction Medication: Ontology-Based Emotion Analysis of Patient Medication Reviews on Social Media - PubMed This study provides valuable insights into the emotional experiences of patients taking PDE5 inhibitors. The findings highlight the importance of emotions in shaping patient sentiment and satisfaction with medication treatment. Understanding these emotional dynamics can aid health care providers in....

Social media in undergraduate teaching and learning: A scoping review protocol - PubMed Systematic searching will be conducted in relevant subject and multidisciplinary databases: Education Database, Education Research Complete, ERIC, British Education Index, Australian Education Index, Academic Search Complete, and Scopus. Records will be deduplicated and screened using Covidence soft...

Use of social media in recruiting young people to mental health research: a scoping review - PubMed Open Science Framework Registry (https://osf.io/mak75/).

Data-mining analysis of media frame effects on social perception of schizophrenia renaming in Korea - PubMed This study was approved from the Institute of Review Board (IRB) of the Yoing-In Mental Hospital (IRB No. YIMH-IRB-2019-02).

Development of an early alert model for pandemic situations in Germany - PubMed The COVID-19 pandemic has pointed out the need for new technical approaches to increase the preparedness of healthcare systems. One important measure is to develop innovative early warning systems. Along those lines, we first compiled a corpus of relevant COVID-19 related symptoms with the help of a...

Using Twitter to collect a multi-dialectal corpus of Albanian using advanced geotagging and dialect modeling - PubMed In this study, we present the acquisition and categorization of a geographically-informed, multi-dialectal Albanian National Corpus, derived from Twitter data. The primary dialects from three distinct regions-Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia-are considered. The assembled publicly available datas...

Social media use and everyday cognitive failure: investigating the fear of missing out and social networks use disorder relationship - PubMed While our study is cross-sectional and thus cannot establish causality, one plausible interpretation of our findings is that higher FoMO tendencies may trigger excessive social media use, which in turn could lead to cognitive failures, possibly due to distraction and reduced attention to everyday ta...

Exposure to social bots amplifies perceptual biases and regulation propensity - PubMed Automated accounts on social media that impersonate real users, often called "social bots," have received a great deal of attention from academia and the public. Here we present experiments designed to investigate public perceptions and policy preferences about social bots, in particular how they ar...

Factors Influencing the Answerability and Popularity of a Health-Related Post in the Question-and-Answer Community: Infodemiology Study of Metafilter - PubMed The research results not only reveal the factors influencing the answerability and popularity of health-related posts, which can help them obtain high-quality answers more efficiently, but also provide a theoretical basis for platform operators to enhance user engagement within health Q&A commun …

The effect of social media environmental information exposure on the intention to participate in pro-environmental behavior - PubMed With the threat of global warming, countries worldwide have enhanced their environmental campaigns on social media to increase users' willingness to take pro-environmental actions. In this study, we examined the direct and indirect effects of exposure to environmental information on Chinese young ad...

Achievement of sustainable environment through effectiveness of social media in Z generation of China - PubMed Social media is emerged as a powerful communication tool over the past ten years. The Z generation's green buying habits and purchase intentions are being reshaped by social media, which is helping to advance the development of a sustainable environment. The consumption of non-organic products has r...

An investigation of social media labeling decisions preceding the 2020 U.S. election - PubMed Since it is difficult to determine whether social media content moderators have assessed particular content, it is hard to evaluate the consistency of their decisions within platforms. We study a dataset of 1,035 posts on Facebook and Twitter to investigate this question. The posts in our sample mad...

Public perception of the resumption of HPV vaccine recommendation in Japan: Twitter content analysis - PubMed On 12 November 2021, after a stagnation of 8.5 years, Japan decided to resume proactive recommendations for HPV vaccines. However, it is not known how the public reacted to the resumption of proactive recommendations for HPV vaccines, which are key elements in health communication that promote HPV v...

International Microorganism Day: facilitating global outreach events using a decentralized model - PubMed On 17 September 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch merchant who lacked formal education and fortune, wrote a letter to the Royal Society of London describing for the first time a single-celled organism. As a tribute to this revolutionary discovery, the Portuguese Society of Microbiology with the...

Frontoparietal functional connectivity moderates the link between time spent on social media and subsequent negative affect in daily life - PubMed Evidence on the harms and benefits of social media use is mixed, in part because the effects of social media on well-being depend on a variety of individual difference moderators. Here, we explored potential neural moderators of the link between time spent on social media and subsequent negative aff...

What can we learn from a Chinese social media used by glaucoma patients? - PubMed Social media can help enhance the patient-doctor relationship by providing patients' concerns and cognition about glaucoma in China. NLP can be a powerful tool to reflect patients' focus on diseases. DL models performed well in classifying Chinese medical-related texts, which could play an important...

Trend analysis of COVID-19 mis/disinformation narratives-A 3-year study - PubMed To tackle the COVID-19 infodemic, we analysed 58,625 articles from 460 unverified sources, that is, sources that were indicated by fact checkers and other mis/disinformation experts as frequently spreading mis/disinformation, covering the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022. Our aim was t...

Perception and Usage of Social Media Among Women in Orthopaedics - PubMed Social media can be used to network professionally within orthopaedic surgery, connecting women at different levels of training. Although concerns about professionalism of social media accounts exist, this may be mitigated by maintaining a separate private account from a public, professional profile...

Exploring motivations for engagement with the Healthy Lunch Box campaign on social media - PubMed Many health organisations seek social media engagement through their online health promotion campaigns, but there is little understanding of what engagement means in relation to the uptake of health messages. To understand the relevance of social media engagement, we need to look at the reasons why....

Social media and partnership jointly alleviate caregivers' psychological distress: exploring the effects of online and offline connectedness - PubMed The findings indicate that caregivers experience more mental distress, which leads to risky behavior. This study highlights the crucial role of both online and offline connectedness in mitigating the adverse consequences of caregiving.

Addressing Antivaccine Sentiment on Public Social Media Forums Through Web-Based Conversations Based on Motivational Interviewing Techniques: Observational Study - PubMed Overall, empathy-first communication strategies based on motivational interviewing garnered less engagement relative to matched controls. One possible explanation is that our interventions quieted contentious, misinformation-laden threads about vaccines on social media. This work reinforces research...

Exploring Perceptions About Paracetamol, Tramadol, and Codeine on Twitter Using Machine Learning: Quantitative and Qualitative Observational Study - PubMed Patients seeking relief from pain are highly interested in the effectiveness of drugs rather than potential side effects. Alarming trends include a significant number of tweets trivializing drug use and recreational purposes, along with a lack of awareness regarding side effects. Monitoring conversa...

Assessing the scientific quality and reliability of YouTube videos about chemotherapy - PubMed No studies have evaluated the interaction, quality, and reliability of chemotherapy-related videos published on YouTube. The aim was to evaluate the content of YouTube videos about chemotherapy using 5 different scoring tools. In this cross-sectional register-based study, popular videos on YouTube a...

Analysis of the evolving factors of social media users' emotions and behaviors: a longitudinal study from China's COVID-19 opening policy period - PubMed The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered citizen panic and social crises worldwide. The Chinese government was the first to implement strict prevention and control policies. However, in December 2022, the Chinese government suddenly changed its prevention and control policies and complete...

Assessing the knowledge, attitude and practice of osteoporosis among Pakistani women: A national social-media based survey - PubMed Adult Pakistani women have a fair understanding of osteoporosis, but the OPAAT tool clarifies some common misconceptions. There is a need to develop educational strategies to increase the knowledge of osteoporosis among Pakistani adults and to promote a bone-healthy lifestyle.

Twitter Misinformation Discourses About Va**ng: Systematic Content Analysis - PubMed We conclude that the spread of misinformation and the accusations of misinformation dissemination using terms such as "fact check," "misinformation," "fake news," and "disinformation" have become weaponized and co-opted by prova**ng actors to delegitimize criticisms about va**ng and to increase conf...

Public Health Policy, Political Ideology, and Public Emotion Related to COVID-19 in the U.S - PubMed Social networks, particularly Twitter 9.0 (known as X as of 23 July 2023), have provided an avenue for prompt interactions and sharing public health-related concerns and emotions, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-person communication became less feasible due to stay-at-home policies i...

Evaluation of scientific quality of YouTube video content related to orthodontic pain management - PubMed The videos uploaded by Doctors were better in terms of quality and reliability, as compared to Non-doctors; and the AVQ of the videos uploaded by both groups was adequate. Despite that, both groups did not serve as a good source of information. YouTube™ cannot be considered a reliable source of in...