通过分析Subreddit r/medical_advice:定量分析来探索社交媒体在解决医疗问题的使用:定量分析
Xiyu Zhao1, Victor Yang1, Arjun Menta1
1School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
JMIR infodemiology
|March 20, 2025
概括
像Reddit的r/medical_advice这样的在线健康论坛显示出高用户参与度,特别是对于紧急查询和与怀孕相关的主题. 该平台主要包括未经验证的用户,这引发了人们对信息可靠性的担忧.
科学领域:
- 数字健康数字健康
- 在线社区 在线社区
- 健康信息 寻找行为 寻找行为
背景情况:
- 互联网已经彻底改变了健康信息的获取,像Reddit的r/medical_advice这样的平台成为了流行的中心.
- 尽管广泛使用,但对在线健康社区的动态和内容质量的研究仍然有限.
- 了解这些平台对于提高在线健康信息质量至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了定量分析r/medical_advice. 的子reddit.
- 描述医疗问题和答案提供者的人口统计数据.
- 了解用户参与和信息搜索行为.
主要方法:
- 一项横截面研究分析了从r/medical_advice开始 (2011年10月) 到2023年3月的所有帖子和顶级评论.
- 使用pushhift.io收集数据,包括帖子/作者风格,分数和参与度量.
- 使用RStudio和GraphPad Prism 9.0.0.进行统计分析.
主要成果:
- 分析了超过194,000条帖子和528,000条评论,只有0.1%的帖子来自经过验证的医疗专业人员.
- 对于紧急问题,严重疼痛报告和与怀孕有关的话题,参与度更高.
- 包含媒体,特别是视频,显著增加了后交互.
结论:
- r/medical_advice表现出显著的用户参与度,受查询类型和媒体包含的影响.
- 与紧急和与怀孕有关的帖子的高参与度突显了公众的兴趣和子reddit作为初始信息来源的作用.
- 不经过验证的信息提供者的普遍性需要提高医疗专业人员的适度和参与,以确保可靠性.
关键词:
在Reddit上,我们可以看到Reddit是什么.跨截面研究是跨截面研究.在决策过程中做出决定.卫生信息 卫生信息健康信息 寻找行为 寻找行为信息质量信息质量信息质量医疗建议 医疗建议医疗问题 医疗问题在线健康在线健康在线健康信息在线健康信息患者教育 患者教育进行定量分析和定量分析.r/医疗_建议社交媒体 社交媒体社会新闻 社会新闻 社会新闻这些都是subreddits.用户互动用户互动.用户生成的内容是用户生成的内容.虚拟环境是虚拟的环境.更多相关视频
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