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A Twitter Education: Why Psychiatrists Should Tweet
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This review describes how Twitter is being used in non-psychiatric medical fields and highlights four current and/or potential uses of Twitter in psychiatry.Abstract:
Social media tools such as blogs, microblogs, social networking sites, podcasts, and video-sharing sites are now ubiquitous. These tools enable instantaneous interactions with a global community of individuals, including medical professionals, learners, and patients. An understanding of social media tools and how they can be used by psychiatrists is increasingly important. This review defines some relevant social media terms and addresses challenges specific to the use of social media in psychiatry. Focused primarily on Twitter, one of the most commonly used social media tools, the review describes how Twitter is being used in non-psychiatric medical fields and highlights four current and/or potential uses of Twitter in psychiatry: (1) patient care and advocacy, (2) lifelong learning, (3) research data collection and collaboration, and (4) scholarly recognition and impact.read more
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Harnessing social media for health information management.
TL;DR: This study proposes a conceptual framework for social media-based health information management by drawing on multi-disciplinary research and presents related research challenges, identifies important yet under-explored research issues, and discusses promising directions for future research.
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Increasing Interest of Mass Communication Media and the General Public in the Distribution of Tweets About Mental Disorders: Observational Study.
Miguel Angel Alvarez-Mon,Ángel Asúnsolo del Barco,Guillermo Lahera,Javier Quintero,Francisco Ferre,Victor Pereira-Sanchez,Felipe Ortuño,Melchor Álvarez-Mon +7 more
TL;DR: The objective of this study is to measure the relevance of influential American mainstream media outlets for the distribution of psychiatric information and the interest generated in these topics among their Twitter followers.
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How Twitter has connected the colorectal community.
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Citation patterns and trends of systematic reviews about mindfulness.
TL;DR: As mindfulness research advances, higher attention should be given to the mechanisms by which mindfulness interventions work so as to provide fruitful insights for future research.
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Social Media as a Tool for the Management of Food Allergy in Children
Alberto Alvarez-Perea,Paula Cabrera-Freitag,Victoria Fuentes-Aparicio,Sonsoles Infante,L. Zapatero,José Manuel Zubeldia +5 more
TL;DR: Using social media for information on food allergy did not correlate with the frequency of recent reactions, self-scored knowledge about food allergy, or opinion on evidence-based or alternative therapies for the disease.
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Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
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Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
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Social Media: A Review and Tutorial of Applications in Medicine and Health Care
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Altmetrics: Value all research products
TL;DR: A new funding policy by the US National Science Foundation represents a sea-change in how researchers are evaluated, says Heather Piwowar.