A New Tool for Public Health Opinion to Give Insight Into Telemedicine: Twitter Poll Analysis.
A New Tool for Public Health Opinion to Give Insight Into Telemedicine: Twitter Poll Analysis.
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DOI：
10.2196/13870
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发表时间：
2019-05-28
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Ahmed, Wasim
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作者：
Vidal-Alaball, Josep;Fernandez-Luque, Luis;Ahmed, Wasim
背景：远程医疗利用信息技术，以便能够远距离提供临床保健。Twitter是一个社交网络平台，每月有3.16亿活跃用户，每天有5亿条推文;它在实时监测公共卫生方面的潜力已得到充分证明。目前缺乏实证研究，批判性地研究了Twitter民意调查在提供公共卫生洞察力方面的潜力。利用Twitter民意调查的好处之一是，它可以获得大量的观众，可以提供即时和实时的反馈。此外，Twitter的民意调查是完全anonymized.OBJECTIVE：本研究的总体目的是开发和传播Twitter的民意调查的基础上，现有的调查，以获得实时反馈的公众意见和意见towards telemedicine.METHODS：两个Twitter的民意调查开发利用以前使用的问卷调查的问题，探讨接受的Twitter用户之间的远程医疗。调查被放置在其中一位作者的Twitter时间轴上，该时间轴拥有超过9300名关注者，并要求帐户关注者回答调查并转发它以达到更大的受众。结果：在远程医疗预计会得到很大支持的人群中，相当数量的Twitter用户对调查做出回应，认为远程医疗不如传统护理。我们的研究结果表明，Twitter民意调查在一系列健康问题上洞察公共卫生话题的潜力，而不仅仅局限于远程医疗。我们的研究还揭示了Twitter民意调查如何用于验证和测试调查问题。
BACKGROUND: Telemedicine draws on information technologies in order to enable the delivery of clinical health care from a distance. Twitter is a social networking platform that has 316 million monthly active users with 500 million tweets per day; its potential for real-time monitoring of public health has been well documented. There is a lack of empirical research that has critically examined the potential of Twitter polls for providing insight into public health. One of the benefits of utilizing Twitter polls is that it is possible to gain access to a large audience that can provide instant and real-time feedback. Moreover, Twitter polls are completely anonymized.OBJECTIVE: The overall aim of this study was to develop and disseminate Twitter polls based on existing surveys to gain real-time feedback on public views and opinions toward telemedicine.METHODS: Two Twitter polls were developed utilizing questions from previously used questionnaires to explore acceptance of telemedicine among Twitter users. The polls were placed on the Twitter timeline of one of the authors, which had more than 9300 followers, and the account followers were asked to answer the poll and retweet it to reach a larger audience.RESULTS: In a population where telemedicine was expected to enjoy big support, a significant number of Twitter users responding to the poll felt that telemedicine was not as good as traditional care.CONCLUSIONS: Our results show the potential of Twitter polls for gaining insight into public health topics on a range of health issues not just limited to telemedicine. Our study also sheds light on how Twitter polls can be used to validate and test survey questions.