Communicating Genetics and Smoking Through Social Media: Are We There Yet?

Viron, Sylviane de; Suggs, L. Suzanne; Brand, Angela; Oyen, Herman Van

doi:10.2196/jmir.2653

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“…[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Some study results also concluded that health education through social media about the dangers of smoking led to reduced cigarette consumption in adolescents. [16][17][18][19][20] The results of this study are not in line with study on the effectiveness of health promotion with leaflets and video media on adolescent knowledge indicating that adolescent knowledge is sufficient and promotes good attitudes after receiving counseling alone about smoking behavior. 10 A study conducted at the Surakarta Vocational School, 3 on the effects of health education on cigarette smoking in adolescents revealed that to increase adolescent knowledge and attitudes about the dangers of smoking, health education is expected to stop smoking habits and avoid smoking to begin with.…”

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Effect of Education through WhatsApp Media in Changing of Smoking Behavior among Senior High School Students

Yusriani

Acob

2020

Kesmas: National Public Health Journal

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Teenagers, who are considerably susceptible to smoking, must be educated to prevent smoking behavior that can cause health problems and even death. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of education through social media such as WhatsApp in the modification of smoking behaviors among senior high school students in Pangkep District, Indonesia. It employed a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest-only control group design. The experimental group received education in the use of WhatsApp social media, while the control group was provided with leaflets. Data were collected through observation and interviews with a total of 180 students in both groups, with 90 students in each. Data analysis used a paired sample t-test and an independent sample t-test. The study suggested that disseminating health information through WhatsApp media about the dangers of teenage smoking was more effective than leaflets in changing student behavior.

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Effect of Education through WhatsApp Media in Changing of Smoking Behavior among Senior High School Students

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Acob

2020

Kesmas: National Public Health Journal

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“…This result highlights the need to investigate the underlying mechanisms further and develop messages regarding the importance of FHH for individuals with limited health literacy. As genomic information plays an increasingly important role in medicine and public health, health literacy research is critically necessary in order to avoid increasing existing health inequalities in information, services, and health outcomes (De Viron, Suggs, Brand, & Van Oyen, 2013; Hurle et al, 2013). …”

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confidence: 99%

Relationships Between Health Literacy and Genomics-Related Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, Perceived Importance, and Communication in a Medically Underserved Population

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Blanchard

Milam

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Journal of Health Communication

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The increasing importance of genomic information in clinical care heightens our need to examine how individuals understand, value, and communicate about this information. Based on a conceptual framework of genomics-related health literacy, we examined whether health literacy was related to knowledge, self-efficacy, and perceived importance of genetics and FHH and communication about FHH in a medically underserved population. The analytic sample was comprised of 624 patients at a primary care clinic at a large urban hospital. About half of participants (47%) had limited health literacy; 55% had no education beyond high school and 58% were Black. In multivariable models, limited health literacy was associated with lower genetic knowledge (β=−0.55; SE=0.10, p<.0001), lower awareness of FHH (OR=0.50; 95% CI=0.28,0.90, p=.020), greater perceived importance of genetic information (OR=1.95; 95% CI=1.27,3.00, p=.0022) but lower perceived importance of FHH information (OR=0.47; 95% CI=0.26,0.86, p=.013), and more frequent communication with a doctor about FHH (OR=2.02; 95% CI=1.27,3.23, p=.0032). The findings highlight the importance of considering domains of genomics-related health literacy (e.g., knowledge, oral literacy) in developing educational strategies for genomic information. Health literacy research is essential to avoid increasing disparities in information and health outcomes as genomic information reaches more patients.

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“…Lower age and more education predicted higher eHealth literacy, and more education and being a female was associated with a high usage of Web 2.0 for retrieving health information [30][31][32]. Women [32] and teenagers [33] with a chronic disease were more active in engaging and participating in health-enhancing behaviors online than the general population.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Women [32] and teenagers [33] with a chronic disease were more active in engaging and participating in health-enhancing behaviors online than the general population. Young people extensively used Facebook privacy settings and intentionally disclosed only a few pieces of personal health information to all of their Facebook friends [34].…”

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Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

2017

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Abstract:The evolution of Internet from static Web "publishing" to the highly participative, and data-driven, innovations of Web 2.0 has been influencing how people search for health-related information. This review included studies indexed in the PubMed electronic database that focused on social media analysis, examining relationships between participants (patients and healthcare consumers) through social media usage. The obtained results showed that previous research regarding social media's impact on patients and healthcare consumers aimed at a combination of platforms, but there is a penury of information about niche topics or its usage for retrieving medical information. Nevertheless, social media proved to be to be a promising tool in research mainly for recruitment purposes. The review has outlined that eHealth literacy is an attribute for populations that are female and relatively young and educated. Blogs share personal experiences, YouTube contains unregulated, high-and low-quality information that can mislead individuals, Facebook contains more marketing than health-related information, while Wikipedia is recommended for providing high-quality information. Despite healthcare practitioners' and healthcare public institutions' reluctance about the use of social media, this review demonstrates the usefulness of social media for patients and healthcare consumers in retrieving health-related information based on content availability and usage implications, and highlights gaps in knowledge that further research needs to fill.

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Communicating Genetics and Smoking Through Social Media: Are We There Yet?

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Effect of Education through WhatsApp Media in Changing of Smoking Behavior among Senior High School Students

Effect of Education through WhatsApp Media in Changing of Smoking Behavior among Senior High School Students

Relationships Between Health Literacy and Genomics-Related Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, Perceived Importance, and Communication in a Medically Underserved Population

Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

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