Department of Urology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Department of Urology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Neurourol Urodyn. 2020 Jan;39(1):440-446. doi: 10.1002/nau.24227. Epub 2019 Nov 20.
The aim of this study is comprehensive analysis of the Twitter activity on #Incontinence.
The following six functional-urology hashtags on Twitter were analyzed from 2015 to 2018 to gain a comprehensive insight into the topic: #Incontinence, #InterstitialCystitis, #OAB, #FPMRS, #BPH, and #UroBPH. For the Twitter analysis, Symplur Signals was used, which is a health care social media analytics tool.
In total 191 383 tweets by 54 094 users in 2015 through 2018 were analyzed. A rise in the number of tweets could be identified for all six analyzed hashtags on functional urology, in summary, the numbers raised from 25 629 tweets in 2015 to 66 551 tweets in 2018. For the hashtag incontinence (#Incontinence), the number of tweets raised from 13 823 in 2015 to 19 996 in 2018 (+44.7%). Main influencers on functional urology topics identified by the Symplur algorithm were individuals from the health care sector in 44.6% of the cases and health care organizations in 36.5% of the cases, whereas for #Incontinence, only 7% of influencers were patients in 2018. The ten most common words connected to #Incontinence were Incontinence, Urinary, Women, Help, New, Bladder, Stress, Treatment, Pelvic, and Sex. Of the tweets, 66% were categorized as positive statements and 34% were categorized as negative.
Social media is an emerging tool of communication in urology, whereas discussions on #Incontinence are underrepresented compared to the high prevalence of urinary incontinence. In addition, patients' activity is low.
本研究的目的是全面分析关于#尿失禁的 Twitter 活动。
本研究分析了 2015 年至 2018 年 Twitter 上的以下六个泌尿外科相关话题标签：#尿失禁、#间质性膀胱炎、#OAB、#FPMRS、#BPH 和#UroBPH，以全面了解该主题。Twitter 分析使用了 Symplur Signals，这是一种医疗保健社交媒体分析工具。
共分析了 2015 年至 2018 年期间 54094 名用户发布的 191383 条推文。所有六个功能性泌尿外科分析的话题标签的推文数量都有所增加，总的来说，数量从 2015 年的 25629 条增加到 2018 年的 66551 条。对于#尿失禁（#Incontinence）这一话题标签，推文数量从 2015 年的 13823 条增加到 2018 年的 19996 条（增加了 44.7%）。Symplur 算法确定的功能性泌尿外科主题的主要影响者在 44.6%的情况下是医疗保健领域的个人，在 36.5%的情况下是医疗保健组织，而在 2018 年，#尿失禁的影响者中只有 7%是患者。与#尿失禁相关的 10 个最常见的词是尿失禁、尿、女性、帮助、新、膀胱、压力、治疗、骨盆和性。在这些推文中，66%被归类为积极的陈述，34%被归类为消极的陈述。
社交媒体是泌尿外科领域一种新兴的沟通工具，而与尿失禁的高患病率相比，关于#尿失禁的讨论代表性不足。此外，患者的活跃度较低。
