Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey.
Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2020 Sep;19(3):251-254. doi: 10.1177/1534734620912942. Epub 2020 Mar 23.
Diabetic foot is a serious problem for health care systems. Twitter can provide communication between people and it might be an informative tool for health care management. The purpose of this study is detecting the people or organizations that tweet about diabetic foot and analyze the interactions of these tweets on Twitter. All tweets containing the keyword "diabetic foot" in April 2019 were collected. The users were separated into 7 groups: patients with diabetes, health care providers, nongovernmental organizations, information sites and communication media, private companies, medical students, and others. Health care professionals and nonprofessionals were evaluated in likes, mentions, and retweets. The major group was health care providers. By 2-group comparisons of professionals and nonprofessionals, all likes, mentions, and retweets were significantly different ( = .02, = .04, < .001, respectively). We concluded that the tweets of health care professionals get more interaction than others. Twitter might be a useful tool to distinguish accurate information about diabetic foot. Also, health care professionals should use for making people aware of the diabetic foot and shed light on society.
糖尿病足是医疗系统面临的一个严重问题。Twitter 可以为人们提供交流的平台，并且可能成为医疗保健管理的有用工具。本研究旨在发现发布有关糖尿病足推文的用户或组织，并分析这些推文在 Twitter 上的互动情况。我们于 2019 年 4 月收集了所有包含“糖尿病足”关键字的推文。用户被分为 7 组：糖尿病患者、医疗保健提供者、非政府组织、信息网站和传播媒体、私营公司、医学生和其他人员。我们对点赞、提及和转发情况对医疗保健专业人员和非专业人员进行了评估。最大的群组是医疗保健提供者。通过专业人员和非专业人员的 2 组比较，所有点赞、提及和转发均有显著差异（=.02，=.04， <.001）。我们得出结论，医疗保健专业人员的推文获得了更多的互动。Twitter 可能是一个有用的工具，可以区分有关糖尿病足的准确信息。此外，医疗保健专业人员应该利用它来提高人们对糖尿病足的认识，并为社会带来启示。
