Avcı Kadriye, Çelikden Sevda Gerek, Eren Semih, Aydenizöz Doğukan
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Medicine, 5th Grade Medical Student, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
BMC Med Educ. 2015 Feb 15;15:18. doi: 10.1186/s12909-015-0300-y.
Social media has created a revolution in health services. Information available on the Internet and via social media is now being used as reference guides for sensitive health issues by nonprofessionals, physicians, and medical students. When used by physicians and medical students, social media has the potential to raise issues such as the blurring of the line between professional and private lives, patient relations, and medical ethics. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the use of social media and attitudes toward its use in medicine among medical students.
Medical students from Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Medicine (Afyonkarahisar, Turkey) were asked to participate in a survey consisting of two sections, the first containing questions assessing the frequency of social media use and the second regarding attitudes toward the use of social media in medicine.
Survey responses indicated that 93.4% of medical students used social media and 89.3% used social media for professional purposes. Factor analysis showed that attitudes toward social media are based on five factors: professional usefulness, popularity, ethics, barriers, and innovativeness. A structural equation model revealed the highest positive correlation between usefulness and innovativeness; ethics had a low but positive correlation with other factors.
Although social media is being used extensively by medical students, they appear unaware of possible ethical issues. Therefore, social media guidelines should be developed.
社交媒体引发了医疗服务领域的一场革命。现在，互联网和社交媒体上的信息正被非专业人士、医生和医学生用作敏感健康问题的参考指南。当医生和医学生使用社交媒体时，它有可能引发诸如职业生活与私人生活界限模糊、医患关系以及医学伦理等问题。这项横断面研究的目的是评估医学生对社交媒体的使用情况以及他们对在医学中使用社交媒体的态度。
来自土耳其阿菲永卡拉希萨尔市阿菲永科泰佩大学医学院的医学生被要求参与一项包含两个部分的调查，第一部分包含评估社交媒体使用频率的问题，第二部分涉及对在医学中使用社交媒体的态度。
调查回复表明，93.4%的医学生使用社交媒体，89.3%的医学生将社交媒体用于专业目的。因子分析表明，对社交媒体的态度基于五个因素：专业实用性、受欢迎程度、伦理道德、障碍和创新性。结构方程模型显示，实用性与创新性之间的正相关性最高；伦理道德与其他因素的相关性较低但为正相关。
尽管医学生广泛使用社交媒体，但他们似乎并未意识到可能存在的伦理问题。因此，应制定社交媒体指南。
