Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Int J Impot Res. 2024 Nov;36(7):679-683. doi: 10.1038/s41443-024-00854-1. Epub 2024 Mar 5.
Social media are popular and play a key role in influencing, informing, and stimulating users in their everyday lives. People (especially adolescents and young adults) increasingly use social media to get and share sexual health-related information. Studies have shown encouraging results on using social media for sexual health communication improving attitudes and behaviors, although the current quality of studies makes them little reliable. In fact, literature shows how research on social media and sexual health communication has many limitations and unexplored areas, especially for male users. What can we do as sexual health professionals to improve in this field? The answer is simple: engage in better communication and do more research, starting from the users' needs. There is the urgency to embrace these new ways of information among professionals in order to improve access to better care. In this perspective article, authors will present and discuss some of the evidence on the use of social media in male sexual health and offer some suggestions on how to communicate better in these platforms.
社交媒体在影响、告知和激发用户日常生活方面非常流行，也起着关键作用。人们（尤其是青少年和年轻人）越来越多地使用社交媒体获取和分享与性健康相关的信息。研究表明，利用社交媒体进行性健康交流可以改善态度和行为，尽管目前研究的质量使得它们不太可靠。事实上，文献表明，社交媒体和性健康交流的研究有许多局限性和未探索的领域，特别是对于男性用户。作为性健康专业人士，我们能做些什么来改善这一领域呢？答案很简单：从用户的需求出发，进行更好的沟通和更多的研究。专业人士迫切需要接受这些新的信息传播方式，以改善获得更好护理的机会。在这篇观点文章中，作者将介绍和讨论一些关于社交媒体在男性性健康中的应用的证据，并就如何在这些平台上进行更好的沟通提出一些建议。
