Let's Face It: Patient and Parent Perspectives on Incorporating a Facebook Group into a Multidisciplinary Weight Management Program

Woolford, Susan J.; Menchaca, Alicia D; Sami, Areej; Blake, Natalie

doi:10.1089/chi.2013.0047

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“…The majority of the studies in this systematic review were observational studies that either analyzed content of social networking profiles of adolescents and young adults, or assessed social media use though questionnaires or interviews of adolescents and young adults regarding their use of social media platforms. Common social behaviors that were observed related to sexual behaviors [ 26 , 33 - 35 , 44 - 46 , 55 , 57 , 60 , 73 - 75 , 77 , 78 , 90 , 93 , 95 - 97 ], alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use [ 26 - 30 , 32 , 45 , 47 , 50 , 52 , 57 , 63 , 65 , 68 , 83 , 92 , 94 , 101 ], mental health [ 24 , 25 , 31 , 36 , 39 , 48 , 59 , 62 , 64 , 67 , 71 , 85 , 91 , 98 , 99 ], and online safety [ 23 , 37 , 38 , 66 , 81 , 82 , 84 , 89 ]. By sharing life experiences with the larger public, social media users offer a window into their lives, often revealing the social pressures and expectations they experience.…”

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“Friending” Teens: Systematic Review of Social Media in Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care

Yonker

Zan²,

Scirica³

et al. 2015

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundSocial media has emerged as a potentially powerful medium for communication with adolescents and young adults around their health choices.ObjectiveThe goal of this systematic review is to identify research on the use of social media for interacting with adolescents and young adults in order to achieve positive health outcomes.MethodsA MEDLINE/PubMed electronic database search was performed between January 1, 2002 and October 1, 2013, using terms to identify peer-reviewed research in which social media and other Web 2.0 technologies were an important feature. We used a systematic approach to retrieve papers and extract relevant data.ResultsWe identified 288 studies involving social media, of which 87 met criteria for inclusion; 75 studies were purely observational and 12 were interventional. The ways in which social media was leveraged by these studies included (1) observing adolescent and young adult behavior (n=77), (2) providing health information (n=13), (3) engaging the adolescent and young adult community (n=17), and (4) recruiting research participants (n=23). Common health topics addressed included high-risk sexual behaviors (n=23), alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (n=19), Internet safety (n=8), mental health issues (n=18), medical conditions (n=11), or other specified issues (n=12). Several studies used more than one social media platform and addressed more than one health-related topic.ConclusionsSocial media technologies offer an exciting new means for engaging and communicating with adolescents and young adults; it has been successfully used to engage this age group, identify behaviors, and provide appropriate intervention and education. Nevertheless, the majority of studies to date have been preliminary and limited in their methodologies, and mostly center around evaluating how adolescents and young adults use social media and the resulting implications on their health. Although these explorations are essential, further exploration and development of these strategies into building effective interventions is necessary.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Friending” Teens: Systematic Review of Social Media in Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care

Yonker

Zan²,

Scirica³

et al. 2015

J Med Internet Res

183

103

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“…One study, for example, used a secret group-a FB option that disallows anyone but members from reading the newsfeed and participating in discussions-to mitigate the privacy issues (Woolford, Esperanza Menchaca, Sami, & Blake, 2013). However, even in this case, participants worried about vendors using their private information to customize and tailor the advertising fed to them.…”

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Social Health Content and Activity on Facebook

Roundtree

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Facebook (FB) is a popular communication medium and community building tool for health outreach, promotion, and support groups for patients with chronic and rare conditions. Medical writers and health communication specialists are often tasked to write the content and support community interactions in health-related FB interventions. However, studies have reported mixed results at sustaining patient participation and engagement in FB interventions. Questions remain about the relationship between health behavior and FB usage and best strategies for evaluating health-related FB interventions. Furthermore, few studies examine health-related FB usage of people not designated as patients, which might help identify native activities that can sustain participants' interest in and engagement with FB interventions. This study examines offline and online health-related activities of FB to identify characteristics shared by people who use FB for health-related purposes. The data from 455 users indicate that offline social health activities do not transfer online; privacy issues, interaction preferences, and differences between FB and offline networks may be barriers. FB campaigns and interventions should have modest and focused goals, such as supplementing offline activities and increasing preexisting FB activity. Designing FB interventions for networks and social groups with preexisting emotional ties and trust would be ideal.

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“…With high levels of consumption and sustained engagement, social media opens up venues for introducing online interventions that affect health behaviors. 5 The popularity of Facebook has facilitated many health behavior research studies in different populations with varying demographic characteristics and on a wide range of health behaviors, including weight loss, [6][7][8][9][10] physical activity, [11][12][13][14][15][16] and smoking cessation. 15 This medium allows for research to be conducted in private groups via polls or through apps on the platform.…”

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Improving Patient Involvement in the Drug Development Process: Case Study of Potential Applications from an Online Peer Support Network

Anand

Brandwood

Evans

2017

Clinical Therapeutics

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To date, social media has been used predominantly by the pharmaceutical industry to market products and to gather feedback and comments on products from consumers, a process termed social listening. However, social media has only been used cautiously in the drug development cycle, mainly because of regulations, restrictions on engagement with patients, or a lack of guidelines for social media use from regulatory bodies. Despite this cautious approach, there is a clear drive, from both the industry and consumers, for increased patient participation in various stages of the drug development process. The authors use the example of HealthUnlocked, one of the world's largest health networks, to illustrate the potential applications of online health communities as a means of increasing patient involvement at various stages of the drug development process. Having identified the willingness of the user population to be involved in research, numerous ways to engage users on the platform have been identified and explored. This commentary describes some of these approaches and reports how online health networks that encourage people to share their experiences in managing their health can, in turn, enable rapid patient engagement for clinical research within the constraints of industry regulation.

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Let's Face It: Patient and Parent Perspectives on Incorporating a Facebook Group into a Multidisciplinary Weight Management Program

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

“Friending” Teens: Systematic Review of Social Media in Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care

“Friending” Teens: Systematic Review of Social Media in Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care

Social Health Content and Activity on Facebook

Improving Patient Involvement in the Drug Development Process: Case Study of Potential Applications from an Online Peer Support Network

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