#Crohn's: Historical Cohort of Twitter Activity. Issue 1 (1st October 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- #Crohn's: Historical Cohort of Twitter Activity. Issue 1 (1st October 2020)
- Main Title:
- #Crohn's: Historical Cohort of Twitter Activity
- Authors:
- Facanali, Marcio Roberto
Bortolozzo Graciolli Facanali, Carolina
Queiroz, Natália Sousa Freitas
Sobrado, Carlos Walter
Nahas, Sérgio Carlos
Safatle-Ribeiro, Adriana Vaz - Abstract:
- Abstract: Background: Analysis of the Twitter activity on #Crohn's, identifying individuals with interest in Crohn's disease on Twitter. Methods: A historic cohort study was conducted about Twitter activity evaluation of #Crohn's analyzed over a period of 9 years. For the Twitter analysis, a health-care social media analytics tool, Symplur Signals, was adopted. Results: From 2011 until 2019, 627, 000 tweets of #Crohn's were detected, with 276, 380 retweets by 109, 937 users; of these users, 32.4% were patient advocates and 12.6% were doctors. There was a pattern of annual peak activity of the #Crohn's, mainly in May and December, and less activity, usually in July. Of all tweets, 52.5% were categorized as positive and 47.5% as negative. Conclusions: Social media, especially Twitter, represents an important information tool, but it is still underutilized by gastroenterologists. This study suggests a significant interference of international awareness campaigns about inflammatory bowel disease in the activity of #Crohn's on Twitter, denoting an increase in debating this topic on the platform. Discussions on the subject by health professionals are still below expectations regarding the importance of the theme. Lay Summary: Descriptive article exploring the hashtag #Crohn's on Twitter, relating its activity in a historical and chronological context.
- Is Part Of:
- Crohn's & colitis 360. Volume 3:Issue 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Crohn's & colitis 360
- Issue:
- Volume 3:Issue 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0003-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-01
- Subjects:
- inflammatory bowel disease -- Crohn's disease -- Twitter -- purple May -- social media
Crohn's disease -- Periodicals
Colitis -- Periodicals
616.344 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
https://academic.oup.com/crohnscolitis360 ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/crocol/otaa075 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2631-827X
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