Centre for Pain IMPACT, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Musculoskelet Sci Pract. 2021 Aug;54:102402. doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2021.102402. Epub 2021 May 21.
Low back pain is the leading contributor to the global disability burden. The Global Spine Care Initiative (GSCI) recommend patient-centred care to stem the cost of low back pain. One way to enhance patient-centred care is by better understanding what is relevant for people with low back pain. Exploring social media posts about low back pain could offer this insight and provide valuable information for health care professionals to facilitate active participation in patient-centred care.
We used an inductive content analysis method. In the form of social media posts, data on Twitter and Instagram were collected from June to August 2018. The posts were geo-targeted to Australia. We recorded the number of status broadcasts that contained a low back pain keyword and responses. We developed a codebook to describe the data and applied it to identify low back pain themes.
We analysed 768 posts containing 457 status broadcasts and 311 responses. Almost half (49%) of status broadcasts about low back pain seemed to seek validation. Expressing sympathy (31%) was the most common response to a status broadcast about low back pain. There were no public responses to 76% of status broadcasts about low back pain. Our analysis yielded two core themes, "hear my pain" and "I feel for you".
Posts about low back pain on social media often seem to suggest that the person posting is seeking validation. Responses typically express sympathy or a shared experience; yet, there is no response to most social media posts about low back pain.
腰痛是导致全球残疾负担的主要原因。全球脊柱护理倡议（GSCI）建议以患者为中心的护理，以遏制腰痛的成本。增强以患者为中心的护理的一种方法是更好地了解腰痛患者的相关情况。探索有关腰痛的社交媒体帖子可以提供这种见解，并为医疗保健专业人员提供有价值的信息，以促进他们积极参与以患者为中心的护理。
我们使用了一种归纳内容分析方法。以社交媒体帖子的形式，从 2018 年 6 月到 8 月，在 Twitter 和 Instagram 上收集了澳大利亚的地理定位数据。我们记录了包含腰痛关键字和回复的状态广播数量。我们开发了一个代码本来描述数据，并应用它来确定腰痛主题。
我们分析了 768 个包含 457 个状态广播和 311 个回复的帖子。近一半（49%）的腰痛状态广播似乎是在寻求认可。对腰痛状态广播最常见的回复是表示同情（31%）。对 76%的腰痛状态广播没有公开回复。我们的分析产生了两个核心主题，“听到我的痛苦”和“我为你感到难过”。
社交媒体上关于腰痛的帖子通常似乎表明发布者正在寻求认可。回复通常表达同情或共同的经历；然而，对大多数关于腰痛的社交媒体帖子没有回应。
