Sensationalist social media usage by doctors and dentists during Covid-19

Law, Richard; Kanagasingam, Shalini; Choong, Kartina Aisha

doi:10.1177/20552076211028034

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“…We are experiencing an unprecedented time in health care and education owing to the COVID-19 pandemic [ 83 ], so the use of SM in patient-HCP communication and student education should also be explored in more detail. Examples of sensationalist SM use by MDs and DMDs during the COVID-19 pandemic have been described [ 84 ], providing a partial insight as to the likely motivations of physicians and dentists to use SM in a manner that may not necessarily lend well to the professional standards expected. The question of how the pandemic affected our e-professional behavior needs to be explored further.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining Potentially Unprofessional Behavior on Social Media for Health Care Professionals: Mixed Methods Study

Rukavina¹,

Poplašen²,

Majer³

et al. 2022

JMIR Med Educ

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Background Social media presence among health care professionals is ubiquitous and largely beneficial for their personal and professional lives. New standards are forming in the context of e-professionalism, which are loosening the predefined older and offline terms. With these benefits also come dangers, with exposure to evaluation on all levels from peers, superiors, and the public, as witnessed in the #medbikini movement. Objective The objectives of this study were to develop an improved coding scheme (SMePROF coding scheme) for the assessment of unprofessional behavior on Facebook of medical or dental students and faculty, compare reliability between coding schemes used in previous research and SMePROF coding scheme, compare gender-based differences for the assessment of the professional content on Facebook, validate the SMePROF coding scheme, and assess the level of and to characterize web-based professionalism on publicly available Facebook profiles of medical or dental students and faculty. Methods A search was performed via a new Facebook account using a systematic probabilistic sample of students and faculty in the University of Zagreb School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. Each profile was subsequently assessed with regard to professionalism based on previously published criteria and compared using the SMePROF coding scheme developed for this study. Results Intercoder reliability increased when the SMePROF coding scheme was used for the comparison of gender-based coding results. Results showed an increase in the gender-based agreement of the final codes for the category professionalism, from 85% in the first phase to 96.2% in the second phase. Final results of the second phase showed that there was almost no difference between female and male coders for coding potentially unprofessional content for students (7/240, 2.9% vs 5/203, 2.5%) or for coding unprofessional content for students (11/240, 4.6% vs 11/203, 5.4%). Comparison of definitive results between the first and second phases indicated an understanding of web-based professionalism, with unprofessional content being very low, both for students (9/222, 4.1% vs 12/206, 5.8%) and faculty (1/25, 4% vs 0/23, 0%). For assessment of the potentially unprofessional content, we observed a 4-fold decrease, using the SMePROF rubric, for students (26/222, 11.7% to 6/206, 2.9%) and a 5-fold decrease for faculty (6/25, 24% to 1/23, 4%). Conclusions SMePROF coding scheme for assessing professionalism of health-care professionals on Facebook is a validated and more objective instrument. This research emphasizes the role that context plays in the perception of unprofessional and potentially unprofessional content and provides insight into the existence of different sets of rules for web-based and offline interaction that marks behavior as unprofessional. The level of e-professionalism on Facebook profiles of medical or dental students and faculty available for public viewing has shown a high level of understanding of e-professionalism.

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Defining Potentially Unprofessional Behavior on Social Media for Health Care Professionals: Mixed Methods Study

Rukavina¹,

Poplašen²,

Majer³

et al. 2022

JMIR Med Educ

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“…COVID-19 marks a departure from the traditional ways of communication for medical professionals. They had to quickly adapt to telemedicine and telecounseling and use social media for evidence-based communication rather than sensationalizing COVID-19-related information (Law et al , 2021). Communication skills are essential for adaptive work (Doyle, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Adaptive leadership of doctors during COVID-19

Santra¹,

Alat

2021

LHS

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Purpose This study aims to examine the adaptive leadership of doctors during COVID-19 to understand the leadership competencies required for adaptive events. Design/methodology/approach Phenomenology-based qualitative design was used. Data were collected from six doctors from the state of Kerala, India using semi-structured interviews. Findings Five themes were identified. The first theme, core leadership shows that doctors perceive leaders as educators, learners and social beings. The second theme, adaptive challenges, describes the ambiguous pandemic-related challenges that doctors are facing including, unusual occupational demands, information overload, sociocultural issues and personal intricacies. The third theme reflects that for doctors, adaptive work during the pandemic included – new learning to address unique issues, changing perspectives and establishing and maintaining a safe and engaging workplace environment. The fourth theme describes the adaptive leadership competencies such as regulating distress, providing direction, maintaining disciplined action, fostering collaboration, empowering, understanding organizational linkages, strategic vision and communication skills. The fifth theme elucidates the lacunae in leadership training as perceived by the doctors. Research limitations/implications The findings can help in developing and enhancing competency frameworks for doctors’ adaptive leadership. Originality/value This is one of the earliest studies to systematically examine components of adaptive leadership for doctors during COVID-19 and identify associated competencies.

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“… 19 COVID-19 is widely regarded as a watershed event that will shape how members of the healthcare industry navigate the world and shape the future they will create. 20 More notably, recent findings suggest that COVID-19 has had an important influence on the psychological well-being and mental health of healthcare professionals. 21 - 23 Those healthcare professionals who are engaged with social media during COVID-19 are more exposed to psychological problems.…”

Section: Coi On Social Media and Healthcare Professional’s Health And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many of these professionals have become increasingly dependent on online media to keep up with changing best practices and to effectively disseminate new information about the novel coronavirus. 20 Groups on Facebook, for example, have millions of participants globally, all distributing relative information and updates, as professionals seek specialized SM groups as a way of sharing professional advice to enquires in real-time. Consequently, bulk distribution of information via SM may induce social media base COVID-19 information overload.…”

Section: Coi On Social Media and Healthcare Professional’s Health And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Impacts of Information Overload on Psychological Well-being of Healthcare Professionals: Role of COVID-19 Stressor

Khan

2022

INQUIRY

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While past research has focused on the benefits of social media during pandemics, this study emphasizes the possible negative effects of social media use among healthcare professionals. It has been stated that healthcare professionals are exposed to COVID-19 and its impacts on the mental health of these workers. Even though recognizing the importance of healthcare professionals during the pandemic, the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health of healthcare professionals have been rarely considered for investigation by researchers. By applying differential susceptibility to the media effects model (DSMM), the current article investigated the effect of COVID-19 information overload (CIO) on psychological and mental well-being and underline mechanisms. Time-wave technique was applied to collect the data. This study tested moderated mediation model by collecting data from 314 healthcare professionals. The findings stated that COVID-19 information overload impacted COVID-19 fatalism and COVID-19 exhaustion directly. Likewise, COVID-19 fatalism mediated the association between CIO and COVID-19 exhaustion. Moreover, the COVID-19 stressor moderated this mediating relationship. This study proposes several practical recommendations for healthcare professionals, social media platform providers, health authorities, organizations, and institutions on how to use social media effectively and sustainably during the global COVID-19 epidemic.

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Sensationalist social media usage by doctors and dentists during Covid-19

Cited by 17 publications

References 33 publications

Defining Potentially Unprofessional Behavior on Social Media for Health Care Professionals: Mixed Methods Study

Defining Potentially Unprofessional Behavior on Social Media for Health Care Professionals: Mixed Methods Study

Adaptive leadership of doctors during COVID-19

Investigating the Impacts of Information Overload on Psychological Well-being of Healthcare Professionals: Role of COVID-19 Stressor

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