Maliakal Cima, Dieter Alexis, Iglesia Cheryl, Davenport Abigail
From the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Urogynecology (Phila). 2024 Jun 1;30(6):545-549. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001429. Epub 2023 Oct 30.
Social media is a powerful outlet for the dissemination of health care information. Adoption of a hashtag ontology-a standardized list of terms-may help better organize information and improve access to educational materials for health care providers (HCPs) and patients.
The primary objective was to create a hashtag ontology specific to obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) based on Twitter usage. Secondary objectives included (1) performing a thematic analysis of OASIS-related tweet content and (2) reporting the type of users posting about OASIS.
This study was an analysis of tweets related to OASIS posted between June 1, 2019, and June 1, 2022. Symplur Signals (a Twitter analytics software) (Symplur LLC, Los Angeles, CA) was used to identify relevant tweets based on predetermined search terms. Hashtags were reviewed by social media influencers to create a finalized ontology list. The top 100 tweets underwent thematic analysis and were grouped based on emergent themes. Types of users posting about OASIS were also analyzed.
Symplur identified 660 tweets related to OASIS. The final ontology included the following 8 hashtags: #OASIS, #perinealtrauma, #birthtrauma, #3rddegreetear, #4thdegreetear, #episiotomy, #operativedelivery, and #postpartumbody. Major tweet content themes included education, self-promotion, patient experience, medical-legal, research, and opinions. Educational tweets surrounded prevention, risk factors, complications, and educational events related to OASIS and perineal trauma. Of the educational tweets, only 30% were posted by HCPs.
This study created a standardized hashtag ontology related to OASIS. Less than one third of educational tweets were posted by HCPs.
社交媒体是传播医疗保健信息的强大渠道。采用主题标签本体（一种标准化的术语列表）可能有助于更好地组织信息，并改善医疗保健提供者（HCP）和患者获取教育材料的途径。
主要目标是基于推特使用情况创建特定于产科肛门括约肌损伤（OASIS）的主题标签本体。次要目标包括：（1）对与OASIS相关的推文内容进行主题分析；（2）报告发布有关OASIS推文的用户类型。
本研究分析了2019年6月1日至2022年6月1日期间发布的与OASIS相关的推文。使用Symplur Signals（一款推特分析软件）（Symplur有限责任公司，加利福尼亚州洛杉矶）根据预先确定的搜索词识别相关推文。社交媒体有影响力的人对主题标签进行了审查，以创建最终的本体列表。对前100条推文进行了主题分析，并根据出现的主题进行了分组。还分析了发布有关OASIS推文的用户类型。
Symplur识别出660条与OASIS相关的推文。最终的本体包括以下8个主题标签：#OASIS、#会阴创伤、#分娩创伤、#三度撕裂、#四度撕裂、#会阴切开术、#手术分娩和#产后身体。主要的推文内容主题包括教育、自我推广、患者体验、医疗法律、研究和观点。教育类推文围绕与OASIS和会阴创伤相关的预防、风险因素、并发症及教育活动。在教育类推文中，只有30%是由HCP发布的。
本研究创建了一个与OASIS相关的标准化主题标签本体。不到三分之一的教育类推文是由HCP发布的。
