Evolving use of social media among Chinese urologists: Opportunity or challenge?

Long, Xingbo; Lin, Qi; Ou, Zhenyu; Zu, Xiongbing; Cao, Zhenzhen; Zeng, Xiansheng; Li, Yuan; Chen, Minfeng; Zhao, Weiduo; Wang, Long

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181895

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“…Conversely, literature has reported some bene ts of use of social media by health professionals; selfdirected learning by staying current, listening to patients' opinions and needs, and patient education can potentially lead to better patient care (19,25,29,33,35,36). The use of social media offers valid opportunities to enhance engagement, effective feedback, professional collaboration and competence (32).…”

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“…Profanity, sexually explicit conducts, derogatory remarks, patient demeaning, references of racism and ethnics, are some other unprofessional behaviors that have been reported in social media (13). Physicians mostly publish pictures or other information about their patients on social media and approximately only 5% of them obtain formal permission from their patients prior to posting (29).…”

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Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

Guraya

Yusoff

2020

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Background Despite a rapid rise of use of social media in medical disciplines, uncertainty prevails among healthcare professionals for providing medical content on social media. There are also growing concerns about unprofessional behaviors and blurring of professional identities that are undermining digital professionalism. This review tapped the literature to determine the impact of social media on medical professionalism and how can professional identities and values be maintained in digital era. Methods We searched the databases of PubMed, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, and EBSCO host using (professionalism AND (professionalism OR (professional identity) OR (professional behaviors) OR (professional values) OR (professional ethics))) AND ((social media) AND ((social media) OR (social networking sites) OR Twitter OR facebook)) AND (health professionals). The research questions were based on participants (health professionals), concept (professionalism), and context (social media, digital world). We screened initial yield of titles using pre-determined inclusion and exclusion criteria and selected a group of articles for qualitative analysis. We used the Biblioshiny® software package for generation of popular concepts as clustered keywords. Results Our search yielded 44 articles with four leading themes; marked rise in use of social media by healthcare professionals and students, negative impact of social media on digital professionalism, blurring of medical professional values, behaviors, and identity in digital era, limited evidence for teaching and assessing digital professionalism. A high occurrence of violation of patient privacy and professional integrity and cyberbullying is reported. There are no existing guidelines and policies for digital professionalism that can safeguard healthcare professionals, students and patients. Conclusion Our scoping review reports a rapid rise of unprofessional behaviors on social media among healthcare professionals. The boundaries between personal and professional practices are mystified in digital professionalism. These findings call for potential educational ramifications to resurrect professional virtues, behaviors and identities of healthcare professionals and students.

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Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

Guraya

Yusoff

2020

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“…Social media also give patients a more active role in disease management [20]. However, in a survey of Chinese urologists, 76% of physicians also complained that social media took time away from clinical practice, and some also complained that negative comments by patients hurt their practice [21].…”

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The Web-Based Physician is Ready to See You: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey of Physicians Using a Mobile Medical App to Evaluate Patients With Sexually Transmitted Diseases in China (Preprint)

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Zhao²,

Bien-Gund³

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“…As a result, this has also inspired many doctors to publish and widely disseminate health information through their own microblogs, WeChat public account, website, video and other means. The spread of health information by doctors on the Internet has a more complex impact on the development of health knowledge and the formation and evolution of risk paradoxes [4][5][6][7] .…”

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Study on the Health Communication Behavior of Chinese Doctors on Network Media——Based on the Empirical Investigation of 119 Chinese Doctors

Wang

2019

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Introduction:In order to reduce the perceived risk of medical decision-making, Chinese patients tend to spend time and energy to understand relevant medical knowledge. After comparing online reviews and news reports of Chinese doctors, they carefully choose doctors. It is precisely because of the patient's treatment habits that many doctors have spread health information through their own microblogs, WeChat public numbers, websites, videos and other means. Therefore, doctors' speeches in cyberspace often play a dominant role in the development of health communication and guide the risk communication. This paper studies the influencing factors of Chinese doctors' healthy communication behavior in online media. This has positive reference value for improving the health literacy of the whole people and the crisis management and guidance of public events. Methods:In order to maximize the representativeness of the sample, the universality of the problems reflected in the survey data, and the adaptability of the purpose and method of the research questions, this paper adopts a multi-stage sampling method. In each region, a medical institution is selected according to a simple random sampling method in three types of hospitals: public hospitals, social hospitals, and primary medical institutions. A total of 10-11 medical institutions were selected in each region, and a total of 32 hospitals were selected from the three regions. According to the PPS sampling method, a corresponding number of working doctors are drawn in each hospital. Statistical analysis of the data was performed using SPSS 21.0 statistical software. Analysis:The study found that doctors' transmission of health-related content on online media is still at a lower level of involvement, and the frequency of transmission is significantly lower than the general level. There are also significant differences in the health transmission of doctors from different backgrounds on the Internet. In the context of control hospital background, continue to examine the impact of Media usage and occupational psychology on doctors' dissemination of health-related content. The results show that the influence of Media usage on the health communication behavior of doctors on the Internet media, to a certain extent, verifies that the rise of online media plays a significant role in putting doctors into health science. This also shows that the media has fostered the doctor's communication behavior. In addition, the higher the self-efficacy of doctors in the workplace, the more cautious they are about their words and deeds, the more they care about the impact of their speech on interpersonal communication.the online frequency of doctors on the online media and the greater the number of online friends, the higher the frequency with which they post or forward healthrelated content on the network. Secondly, the media literacy of doctors also has a positive impact on the behavior of healthy communication on the network (β=0.101, P<0.001). The higher the media literacy of doctors, th...

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Evolving use of social media among Chinese urologists: Opportunity or challenge?

Cited by 25 publications

References 28 publications

Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

The Web-Based Physician is Ready to See You: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey of Physicians Using a Mobile Medical App to Evaluate Patients With Sexually Transmitted Diseases in China (Preprint)

Study on the Health Communication Behavior of Chinese Doctors on Network Media——Based on the Empirical Investigation of 119 Chinese Doctors

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