Are video sharing Web sites a useful source of information on hypertension?

Kumar, Nilay; Pandey, Ambarish; Venkatraman, Anand; Garg, Neetika

doi:10.1016/j.jash.2014.05.001

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“…This finding is troubling, because of the unknown quality and safety of products and services promoted in open environments such as Facebook groups. Similar to our study’s result, Kumar et al reported that 20.1% of hypertension-based YouTube videos contained product advertisements, and many of them advocated unproven alternative treatments of hypertension, which raises concerns about patient safety (28). Moreover, the World Health Organization pointed out the potential harm to individuals’ and the public’s health from medical products sold via the Internet (29).…”

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confidence: 86%

“…However, neither of those studies (5,16) nor our study examined the scientific accuracy of the information posted on Facebook group walls. Although vetting the accuracy of the information posted to the hypertension-related Facebook groups’ walls was beyond the scope of our project, some studies have explored the accuracy of health-related information available on the Internet (28,30). …”

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Social Media in Communicating Health Information: An Analysis of Facebook Groups Related to Hypertension

Mamun¹,

Ibrahim²,

Turin³

2015

Prev. Chronic Dis.

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IntroductionWe studied Facebook groups related to hypertension to characterize their objectives, subject matter, member sizes, geographical boundaries, level of activity, and user-generated content.MethodsWe performed a systematic search among open Facebook groups using the keywords “hypertension,” “high blood pressure,” “raised blood pressure,” and “blood pressure.” We extracted relevant data from each group’s content and developed a coding and categorizing scheme for the whole data set. Stepwise logistic regression was used to explore factors independently associated with each group’s level of activity.ResultsWe found 187 hypertension-related Facebook groups containing 8,966 members. The main objective of most (59.9%) Facebook groups was to create hypertension awareness, and 11.2% were created primarily to support patients and caregivers. Among the top-displayed, most recent posts (n = 164), 21.3% were focused on product or service promotion, whereas one-fifth of posts were related to hypertension-awareness information. Each Facebook group’s level of activity was independently associated with group size (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.02; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01–1.03), presence of “likes” on the most recent wall post (AOR, 3.55, 95% CI, 1.41–8.92), and presence of attached files on the group wall (AOR, 5.01, 95% CI, 1.25–20.1).ConclusionThe primary objective of most of the hypertension-related Facebook groups observed in this study was awareness creation. Compared with the whole Facebook community, the total number of hypertension-related Facebook groups and their users was small and the groups were less active.

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Social Media in Communicating Health Information: An Analysis of Facebook Groups Related to Hypertension

Mamun¹,

Ibrahim²,

Turin³

2015

Prev. Chronic Dis.

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“…While Internet and smartphones can greatly facilitate effective management of HTN, a recent study by our group showed that up to one-third of all information on video sharing websites to be inaccurate but highly popular. 9 According to some observers, an estimated 1.7 billion m-health users (23% of the world's population) are projected by 2018. While this could represent unprecedented opportunities for expanding healthcare delivery and reducing health disparities, the near absence of regulation and standardization of m-health technology could pose significant risks to public/patient safety.…”

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A content analysis of smartphone–based applications for hypertension management

Kumar

Khunger

Gupta

et al. 2015

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension

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“…Rather, the source of the video predicts its usefulness (Kumar et al, 2014). Thus, it is important that people in positions of influence in the field of AAC and interested in raising the profile of evidence-based practice consider using YouTube TM The tags #FacilitatedCommunication #FC #FCT #SupportedTyping #AugComm and #AAC are important to include in future research about information on FC in Twitter TM , along with others found in our Twitter TM scan: #AAC #autism #autistic #nonverbal #nonvocal and #RapidPrompt-ingMethod.…”

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“…The number of times a YouTube TM video is viewed is one measure of its impact but does not predict its usefulness (Kumar, Pandey, Venkatraman, & Garg, 2014). Rather, the source of the video predicts its usefulness (Kumar et al, 2014).…”

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Social media and social marketing in relation to facilitated communication: Harnessing the affordances of social media for knowledge translation

Hemsley

Dann

2014

Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention

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In this reply to Lilienfeld, Marshall, Todd, and Shane (2015) we provide a social marketing perspective on ways that facilitated communication (FC) is presented and discussed on social media platforms, in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The growth in uptake and use of FC in recent years has occurred in the context of rapid growth in mobile technologies and AAC integrated with social media and online learning. Social media have been used to disseminate both materials that are supportive of FC and materials that provide scientific evidence of facilitator influence over authorship in FC. In order to illustrate how social media are being used to spread information about FC, we present a limited scan of two social media sites-Twitter TM and YouTube TM -for information about FC. In this paper we discuss barriers to evidence and facilitators for FC in social media and consider the role that social marketing might play in relation to FC. Clinical implications for using social media to counter FC and directions for future research are discussed.

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Are video sharing Web sites a useful source of information on hypertension?

Cited by 175 publications

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Social Media in Communicating Health Information: An Analysis of Facebook Groups Related to Hypertension

Social Media in Communicating Health Information: An Analysis of Facebook Groups Related to Hypertension

A content analysis of smartphone–based applications for hypertension management

Social media and social marketing in relation to facilitated communication: Harnessing the affordances of social media for knowledge translation

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