Facanali Marcio Roberto, Bortolozzo Graciolli Facanali Carolina, Queiroz Natália Sousa Freitas, Sobrado Carlos Walter, Nahas Sérgio Carlos, Safatle-Ribeiro Adriana Vaz
Department of Gastroenterology of Hospital das Clínicas of University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Department of Gastroenterology of Hospital das Clinicas of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Crohns Colitis 360. 2020 Oct 1;3(1):otaa075. doi: 10.1093/crocol/otaa075. eCollection 2021 Jan.
Analysis of the Twitter activity on #Crohn's, identifying individuals with interest in Crohn's disease on Twitter.
A historic cohort study was conducted about Twitter activity evaluation of #Crohn's analyzed over a period of 9 years. For the Twitter analysis, a health-care social media analytics tool, Symplur Signals, was adopted.
From 2011 until 2019, 627,000 tweets of #Crohn's were detected, with 276,380 retweets by 109,937 users; of these users, 32.4% were patient advocates and 12.6% were doctors. There was a pattern of annual peak activity of the #Crohn's, mainly in May and December, and less activity, usually in July. Of all tweets, 52.5% were categorized as positive and 47.5% as negative.
Social media, especially Twitter, represents an important information tool, but it is still underutilized by gastroenterologists. This study suggests a significant interference of international awareness campaigns about inflammatory bowel disease in the activity of #Crohn's on Twitter, denoting an increase in debating this topic on the platform. Discussions on the subject by health professionals are still below expectations regarding the importance of the theme.
分析#克罗恩病在推特上的活动情况，识别推特上对克罗恩病感兴趣的用户。
开展一项历史性队列研究，对#克罗恩病在9年期间的推特活动进行评估。推特分析采用了一款医疗保健社交媒体分析工具Symplur Signals。
2011年至2019年期间，共检测到6万27000条关于#克罗恩病的推文，109937名用户进行了276380次转发；其中，32.4%的用户是患者倡导者，12.6%是医生。#克罗恩病的年度活动呈现出高峰模式，主要集中在5月和12月，7月的活动较少。在所有推文中，52.5%被归类为积极，47.5%为消极。
社交媒体，尤其是推特，是一个重要的信息工具，但胃肠病学家对其利用不足。本研究表明，关于炎症性肠病的国际宣传活动对#克罗恩病在推特上的活动有重大影响，这表明该平台上关于这一话题的讨论有所增加。健康专业人员对该主题的讨论仍未达到该主题重要性所期望的水平。
