School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
Hunter New England Local Health District, New Lambton, Australia.
Nutr Diet. 2023 Sep;80(4):351-361. doi: 10.1111/1747-0080.12794. Epub 2023 Jan 11.
To develop and pilot a tool to evaluate Australian dietitians' and student dietitians' ethical and professional practice using social media.
A Social Media Evaluation Checklist was developed based on checklist development literature with a four-staged process. Stage one included a literature review and input from an expert panel to ensure content validity. Stages two and three were to ensure face validity by categorising the checklist and pilot testing the tool. Instagram profiles and posts were audited by two authors using the checklist in the final stage to analyse ethical and professional use. An account purposely created for this study was used, and the first 25 dietitian and first 25 student dietitian profiles identified using the key words 'dietitian', 'student dietitian' and 'dietitian student' and the hashtag '#australiandietitian' were reviewed.
A total of 50 Instagram profiles and 250 posts were audited based on seven categories; (1) financial disclosure, (2) cultural awareness, (3) evidence-based information, (4) transparency, (5) privacy/confidentiality, (6) professionalism and (7) justifiability. Areas for improvement included advertising transparency which was met in only 12% of dietitian posts, and the provision of evidence-based information, which was met in 56% of dietitian posts and 72% of student dietitian posts.
This study provides insight into the ethical and professional use of social media by Australian dietitians and dietetics students. With the evolving nature of social media, guidance is required. This will ensure dietitians remain, now and in the future, the credible source of nutrition information for the public.
开发并试用一种工具，以评估澳大利亚营养师和学生营养师使用社交媒体的伦理和专业实践。
根据清单制定文献，采用四阶段过程制定了社交媒体评估清单。第一阶段包括文献回顾和专家小组的意见，以确保内容的有效性。第二和第三阶段通过对清单进行分类和试用工具，以确保表面有效性。在最后阶段，两名作者使用清单对 Instagram 个人资料和帖子进行审核，以分析道德和专业用途。本研究特意创建了一个账户，使用关键字“营养师”、“学生营养师”和“营养师学生”以及标签“#australiandietitian”，共审核了前 25 位营养师和前 25 位学生营养师的 50 个 Instagram 个人资料和 250 个帖子。
根据七个类别共审核了 50 个 Instagram 个人资料和 250 个帖子：（1）财务披露，（2）文化意识，（3）基于证据的信息，（4）透明度，（5）隐私/保密性，（6）专业性和（7）合理性。需要改进的领域包括广告透明度，只有 12%的营养师帖子符合要求，以及提供基于证据的信息，只有 56%的营养师帖子和 72%的学生营养师帖子符合要求。
本研究提供了澳大利亚营养师和营养学生在社交媒体上的道德和专业使用情况的深入了解。随着社交媒体的不断发展，需要指导。这将确保营养师现在和将来仍然是公众获取营养信息的可信来源。
