Social networking and Internet use among pelvic floor patients: a multicenter survey

Mazloomdoost, Donna; Kanter, G. S.; Chan, Robert; Deveaneau, Nicolette; Wyman, A.M.; Bargen, E.C. Von; Chaudhry, Zaid; Elshatanoufy, Solafa; Miranne, Jeannine M.; Chu, C. K.; Pauls, Rachel N.; Arya, Lily A.; Antosh, Danielle D.

doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2016.06.011

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“…Respondents were placed in the following age groups: young (age < 45), middle-aged (age ≥45 and <65) and older (age ≥ 65) based on age group definitions used in similar studies. 15,[21][22][23][24] Willingness to use mobile technology to communicate with a medical provider was categorized as a yes/no variable. Women were classified as willing to use mobile technology if they responded "strongly agree" or "agree".…”

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Willingness of Women With Pelvic Floor Disorders to Use Mobile Technology to Communicate With Their Health Care Providers

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Arya

Andy

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Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg

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Objectives: To assess willingness of women with pelvic floor disorders to adopt non-traditional mobile communication methods with health care providers. Methods: Cross-sectional study of women with pelvic floor disorders. Women completed a survey regarding what technology they owned, how they utilized it and their willingness to use technology to communicate with providers. Results: Overall mobile technology ownership was high; however, older women were significantly less likely to own a smart phone (75%) compared to younger (100%) and middleaged women (98%) (p < .01). On univariable analysis, factors significantly associated with willingness to use mobile technology were age (p < .01) and education status (p < .01). A relationship between travel distance to the clinic and willingness to adopt various mobile technologies was not noted. On multivariable analysis, after controlling for education and travel distance to clinic, older women remained significantly less likely to express willingness to use various technologies: video-conference technology (OR 0.97, 95% CI 0.95, 0.99), text messaging (OR 0.94, 95% CI 0.91, 0.97), internet-based patient portal (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.94, 0.98) and email (OR 0.94, 95% CI 0.91, 0.98). However, almost 50% of older women and greater than 65% of middle-aged women expressed willingness to adopt technologies for health care communication. Conclusions: Age-related differences exist in the ownership, utilization, and willingness to communicate with medical providers through mobile technology. However, the majority of women across all age-groups, irrespective of travel distance, are willing to adopt alternative mobile technologies to communicate with their health care providers.

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Willingness of Women With Pelvic Floor Disorders to Use Mobile Technology to Communicate With Their Health Care Providers

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Arya

Andy

et al. 2019

Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg

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“…Google search analysis is a powerful tool to reflect the German population’s interest in specific topics because of its 94% market share [ 5 ]. Additionally, the general public favors search engines like Google over specialized websites when searching for primary health information online [ 6 - 9 ]. Previous studies have already demonstrated that analysis of internet search volume, which is one of the methods of the fields of infodemiology and infoveillance, is a valid method for assessing medical topics [ 10 - 15 ].…”

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Googling for Ticks and Borreliosis in Germany: Nationwide Google Search Analysis From 2015 to 2018

Scheerer¹,

Rüth²,

Tizek³

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J Med Internet Res

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Background Borreliosis is the most frequently transmitted tick-borne disease in Europe. It is difficult to estimate the incidence of tick bites and associated diseases in the German population due to the lack of an obligation to register across all 16 federal states of Germany. Objective The aim of this study is to show that Google data can be used to generate general trends of infectious diseases on the basis of borreliosis and tick bites. In addition, the possibility of using Google AdWord data to estimate incidences of infectious diseases, where there is inconsistency in the obligation to notify authorities, is investigated with the perspective to facilitate public health studies. Methods Google AdWords Keyword Planner was used to identify search terms related to ticks and borreliosis in Germany from January 2015 to December 2018. The search volume data from the identified search terms was assessed using Excel version 15.23. In addition, SPSS version 24.0 was used to calculate the correlation between search volumes, registered cases, and temperature. Results A total of 1999 tick-related and 542 borreliosis-related search terms were identified, with a total of 209,679,640 Google searches in all 16 German federal states in the period under review. The analysis showed a high correlation between temperature and borreliosis (r=0.88), and temperature and tick bite (r=0.83), and a very high correlation between borreliosis and tick bite (r=0.94). Furthermore, a high to very high correlation between Google searches and registered cases in each federal state was observed (Brandenburg r=0.80, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania r= 0.77, Saxony r= 0.74, and Saxony-Anhalt r=0.90; all P<.001). Conclusions Our study provides insight into annual trends concerning interest in ticks and borreliosis that are relevant to the German population exemplary in the data of a large internet search engine. Public health studies collecting incidence data may benefit from the results indicating a significant correlation between internet search data and incidences of infectious diseases.

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“…For this purpose, the Google search engine is promising for Germany because of its 95% market share [ 24 ]. Moreover, the population prefers the use of search engines such as Google over specialized websites when searching for health information online [ 25 - 27 ].…”

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What Do Germans Want to Know About Skin Cancer? A Nationwide Google Search Analysis From 2013 to 2017

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BackgroundExperts worldwide agree that skin cancer is a global health issue, but only a few studies have reported on world populations’ interest in skin cancer. Internet search data can reflect the interest of a population in different topics and thereby identify what the population wants to know.ObjectiveOur aim was to assess the interest of the German population in nonmelanoma skin cancer and melanoma.MethodsGoogle AdWords Keyword Planner was used to identify search terms related to nonmelanoma skin cancer and melanoma in Germany from November 2013 to October 2017. The identified search terms were assessed descriptively using SPSS version 24.0. In addition, the search terms were qualitatively categorized.ResultsA total of 646 skin cancer-related search terms were identified with 19,849,230 Google searches in the period under review. The search terms with the highest search volume were “skin cancer” (n=2,388,500, 12.03%), “white skin cancer” (n=2,056,900, 10.36%), “basalioma” (n=907,000, 4.57%), and “melanoma” (n=717,800, 3.62%). The most searched localizations of nonmelanoma skin cancer were “nose” (n=93,370, 38.99%) and “face” (n=53,270, 22.24%), and the most searched of melanoma were “nails” (n=46,270, 70.61%) and “eye” (n=10,480, 15.99%). The skin cancer‒related category with the highest search volume was “forms of skin cancer” (n=10,162,540, 23.28%) followed by “skin alterations” (n=4,962,020, 11.36%).ConclusionsOur study provides insight into terms and fields of interest related to skin cancer relevant to the German population. Furthermore, temporal trends and courses are shown. This information could aid in the development and implementation of effective and sustainable awareness campaigns by developing information sources targeted to the population’s broad interest or by implementing new Internet campaigns.

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Social networking and Internet use among pelvic floor patients: a multicenter survey

Cited by 49 publications

References 16 publications

Willingness of Women With Pelvic Floor Disorders to Use Mobile Technology to Communicate With Their Health Care Providers

Willingness of Women With Pelvic Floor Disorders to Use Mobile Technology to Communicate With Their Health Care Providers

Googling for Ticks and Borreliosis in Germany: Nationwide Google Search Analysis From 2015 to 2018

What Do Germans Want to Know About Skin Cancer? A Nationwide Google Search Analysis From 2013 to 2017

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