Arayapisit Tawepong, Jarunsiripaisarn Jidapa, Setthamongkol Thitaree, Ochaphan Dhitaya, Songsomsup Tanaporn, Sipiyaruk Kawin
Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2021 Aug 13;11(5):539-545. doi: 10.4103/jispcd.JISPCD_139_21. eCollection 2021 Sep-Oct.
Unprofessionalism in the use of Facebook has been found among healthcare professionals including dental students. The improper content may be shared to the public, negatively impacting their professions. This study explored account privacy and professionalism on Facebook usage in conjunction with evaluating whether there were correlations among presence of clinical experience, account privacy, and professionalism.
This study retrospectively explored professionalism in the use of Facebook among Mahidol dental undergraduates in the academic year 2019. The students who had identifiable Facebook and accepted a friend request were included into this study. The content on both "About" and "Wall" sections was examined and analyzed using descriptive statistics and χ test.
Facebook profiles of 522 students were identified. There were 382 (73.18%) students who accepted the friend requests, revealing account privacy: 32 (8.38%) private, 200 (52.36%) limited, and 150 (39.27%) public profiles. Clearly unprofessional content was mostly relevant to sharing information of patients (15.97%), followed by parody content of patients (8.9%). Questionably unprofessional misconducts included political discriminations (14.66%), profanity (3.14%), and alcohol consumption (2.88%). Professionalism was found to be significantly correlated with privacy (<0.001) and clinical experience (<0.001).
Unprofessionalism tended to be higher in clinical years, so professionalism should be emphasized constantly throughout the dental program, especially before starting clinical practice. Privacy concerns should also be suggested for students at the beginning of the program.
在包括牙科学生在内的医疗保健专业人员中，发现了在使用脸书时存在不专业行为。不当内容可能会被公开分享，对他们的职业产生负面影响。本研究探讨了脸书使用中的账户隐私和专业性，并评估临床经验、账户隐私和专业性之间是否存在相关性。
本研究回顾性地探讨了2019学年玛希隆大学牙科本科生在使用脸书时的专业性。纳入了那些有可识别的脸书且接受好友请求的学生。使用描述性统计和χ检验对“关于”和“动态”部分的内容进行了检查和分析。
识别出522名学生的脸书资料。有382名（73.18%）学生接受了好友请求，显示出账户隐私情况：32名（8.38%）为私密账户，200名（52.36%）为受限账户，150名（39.27%）为公开资料。明显不专业的内容大多与分享患者信息有关（15.97%），其次是恶搞患者的内容（8.9%）。有问题的不专业行为包括政治歧视（14.66%）、亵渎（3.14%）和饮酒（2.88%）。发现专业性与隐私（<0.001）和临床经验（<0.001）显著相关。
临床阶段的不专业倾向往往更高，因此在整个牙科课程中应不断强调专业性，尤其是在开始临床实习之前。在课程开始时也应向学生提出隐私方面的建议。
