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García-Méndez, Carmen; Padilla, Francisca María García; Romero‐Martín, Macarena; Sosa-Cordobés, Elena; Domínguez-Pérez, María Del Mar; Robles-Romero, José Miguel

doi:10.4103/jehp.jehp_355_22

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“…According to our results, our university students showed this increase in Internet use, since 60.3% of them are connected between 20 and 40 h a week to the Internet, and 43.6% to social networks, which is greater than the Spanish average when we refer to addiction, defined as being online more than 20 h a week. According to our bibliography, the average use of the Internet is 18 h 12 min per week through mobile devices, and the average use of social networks is a total of 15 h 75 min [19]. This may be due to the fact that nowadays we live connected to the Internet, whether to work, study [20] or attend meetings or classes online.…”

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“…It is also necessary to design new educational strategies that favour this critical analysis and digital skills [28] within the classroom, and to teach technological literacy for an improvement in search strategies to improve knowledge of health. The nurse can become a key professional in health education, and a key and strategic player in public health and health policies [19].…”

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Perception of Internet Use in Relation to Health Decision-Making among Nursing Students

Zafra-Agea

Calvillo-Nuñez

Gil-Jiménez

et al. 2023

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Internet use has increased worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, to the point where it has inadvertently integrated into our lives. University students use the Internet daily for different purposes: seeking information, entertaining, as a teaching and learning tool, they consider social networks as a means of connection and social interaction, and to seek information to make health decisions. Because of this, the Internet and social networks have gained popularity among this group, to the point of developing an abusive use that is not perceived as an addictive risk. A descriptive analysis was performed through the adaptation of a survey about Internet use, social networks and health perception; this survey was given to nursing students of the Gimbernat School during the academic year 2021–2022. Students completed the ad hoc questionnaire (N = 486; 83.5% female, 16.3% male; only 1 declared to be non-binary gender). Our hypothesis had to do with whether the population of nursing students at Gimbernat School had increased, after the pandemic, its use of the Internet and social networks to make decisions about health problems. The objective of the study was to analyse differences in students’ habits of use of the Internet and social networks as they look for health information, their decision-making when they find the information and their perception of health as nursing students from a gender perspective. The results showed a clear positive relationship between the variables studied. Of nursing students, 60.4% spend between 20 and more than 40 h a week using the Internet, and 43.6% of these hours are spent on social networks. Of students, 31.1% make health decisions by searching for information on the Internet and consider it useful and relevant. The use of the Internet and social media in relation to health decisions is clearly affected. To try to reduce the incidence of the problem, interventions are needed regarding the prevention and/or consequences of Internet abuse and health education of student nurses as future health assets.

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Perception of Internet Use in Relation to Health Decision-Making among Nursing Students

Zafra-Agea

Calvillo-Nuñez

Gil-Jiménez

et al. 2023

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“…Previous studies have established that the digital media may serve as an effective platform dissemination of health-related information. [ 25 26 ] The WHD is one of the eleven official disease-specific world health days designated by WHO, to focus our attention on millions of patients with chronic Hepatitis B and C infections. Many similar awareness days and months are celebrated worldwide, with recognition from one or more major health institutions around the world.…”

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Digital impact of world hepatitis day: Formulating evidence-based recommendations for promoting healthcare awareness events

Malhotra,

Bawa,

Singla

et al. 2023

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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BACKGROUND: Social media applications provide room for public interaction and forming communities, thus helping disseminate health-related information. Since 2010, World Hepatitis Day has been observed on July 28 with endorsement from the World Health Organization. This study aimed to ascertain the global digital impact of World Hepatitis Day on Twitter (an online microblogging social network) and on the web (web searches and news) to formulate evidence-based recommendations for promoting future policy development. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed publicly available data from Twitter, a popular microblogging social network on the internet (data accessed from India). Three social media assessment tools (Sprout social, SocioViz and Symplur) and Google Trends were used to obtain data about the tweets and global impressions worldwide about World Hepatitis Day. A time frame from July 27 th , 2022 to July 29 th , 2022 was taken into account for all the tweets in various time zones around the world. RESULTS: “#WorldHepatitisDay” and “#Hepatitis” received 519.16 million and 412.37 million impressions in the defined timeframe, respectively. A total of 39,069 tweets were posted about World Hepatitis Day, an increase of 24.1% compared to the previous year. On social network analysis, 93 of the top 100 influencers collaborated among themselves, which helped in the wider dissemination of awareness. CONCLUSIONS: World Hepatitis Day 2022 was an impactful healthcare awareness event on Twitter for the global audience and sets forth an example of the effective utilization of resources. Future policies shall inculcate constructive feedback from our findings and must be inclusive of all the underrepresented communities.

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“…The rapid rise of this procedure and its recognition by both the medical community and the lay public can be seen in the influence of social media on disseminating healthcare information. With the contemporary patient being more connected than ever, healthcare information exchange, particularly via social media, has reached unprecedented levels [6][7][8][9]. However, this increasing reliance on social media as a primary source of health-related information brings forth a surfeit of concerns [10].…”

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Beyond Hypoglossal Hype: Social Media Perspectives on the Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System

Rossi,

Vories,

Razmi

et al. 2023

Healthcare

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In the landscape of sleep surgery, the Inspire® Upper Airway Stimulation (UAS) device has gained prominence as an increasingly popular treatment option for obstructive sleep apnea, prompting significant discourse across social media platforms. This study explores the social media narrative of the UAS device, particularly the nature of multimedia content, author demographics, and audience engagement on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Our analysis encompassed 423 public posts, revealing images (67.4%) and videos (28.1%) as the dominant content types, with over a third of posts authored by physicians. A notable 40% of posts were advertisements, whereas patient experiences comprised 34.5%. TikTok, although presenting a smaller sample size, showed a substantially higher engagement rate, with posts averaging 152.9 likes, compared with Instagram and Facebook at 32.7 and 41.2 likes, respectively. The findings underscore the need for otolaryngologists and healthcare professionals to provide clear, evidence-based information on digital platforms. Given social media’s expanding role in healthcare, medical professionals must foster digital literacy and safeguard the accuracy of health information online. In this study, we concluded that maintaining an evidence-based, transparent digital dialogue for medical innovations such as the UAS device necessitates collaborative efforts among physicians, health institutions, and technology companies.

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Perception of Internet Use in Relation to Health Decision-Making among Nursing Students

Perception of Internet Use in Relation to Health Decision-Making among Nursing Students

Digital impact of world hepatitis day: Formulating evidence-based recommendations for promoting healthcare awareness events

Beyond Hypoglossal Hype: Social Media Perspectives on the Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System

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