Harnessing social media for health promotion and behavior change.
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...In parallel to general purpose SNSs like Facebook and Twitter, health-specific SNSs are also emerging.(6) Some are oriented towards patients with a specific chronic condition (eg, TuDiabetes), others are more general and open to patients with any chronic condition (eg, PatientsLikeMe), and a few others target people wanting to change a particular health-risk behavior (eg, smoking cessation(7)) or other health-related lifestyle factors....
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...0 in health promotion [56], we also examined whether use of discrete Web 2....
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...…Bastos, et al., 2014), political outreach (Bond, et al., 2012; Bakshy, et al., 2015), public health interventions (Centola, 2010; Dredze, 2012; Korda & Itani, 2013), or situational awareness (Sasaki, et al., 2010; Merchant, et al., 2011; Signorini, et al., 2011; Paul & Dredze, 2011),…...
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...Studies are needed to determine how the use of social media (1) affects understanding of health and illness, (2) promotes healthy behaviors, (3) affects personal health decision making, (4) affects how patients perceive their privacy and access to their information by others, and (5) impacts the relationships of patients with their healthcare providers....
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...…and attempt to ‘nudge’ members of target groups to change their behaviour in the interests of their health [for recent examples, see (Crutzen and De Nooijer, 2011; Kratzke and Cox, 2012; Buhi et al., 2013; Chou et al., 2013; Korda and Itani, 2013; Epton et al., 2014; Smith et al., 2014)]....
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...After realizing the reach and potential impact of these technologies, health promoters have experimented with using text messages, social media sites and apps to strategically disseminate information about preventive health, collect data about people’s health-related behaviours and attempt to ‘nudge’ members of target groups to change their behaviour in the interests of their health [for recent examples, see (Crutzen and De Nooijer, 2011; Kratzke and Cox, 2012; Buhi et al., 2013; Chou et al., 2013; Korda and Itani, 2013; Epton et al., 2014; Smith et al., 2014)]....
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...22 HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE / January 2013 mixed results, but specific applications have demonstrated great promise and effect (Webb et al., 2010)....
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...One of the most comprehensive investigations we identified is a recent meta-analysis of 85 studies by Webb et al. (2010) that found interventions that were strongly based in theory had greater impact than those that were not, and interventions that incorporated more behavior change techniques…...
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...Evaluation of these interventions shows 22 HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE / January 2013 mixed results, but specific applications have demonstrated great promise and effect (Webb et al., 2010)....
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...Theory-based interventions: Although there is considerable variation in the efficacy of individual interventions, evidence shows that those developed and guided by theories of social and behavioral change are more effective at promoting desired change than efforts that are not theory based (Webb et al., 2010)....
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...Webb et al. (2010) found that tailored text messages are highly effective to promote interaction with the intervention, to send motivational messages (e.g., reminders of the benefits of exercise), to challenge dysfunctional beliefs, or to provide a cue to action....
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...Attrition, when participants stop usage or are lost to follow-up, has also been identified as a fundamental issue for evaluation of online interventions (Eysenbach, 2005)....
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...Chou et al. (2009) found that people of any ethnicity, regardless of education level, used social networking sites at a higher rate than all non-Hispanic Whites, noting that these differences are likely explained by age....
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