Consumers’ use of social media for health purposes

• In: Poster presentation
• At: Buenos Aires (Argentina) (2016)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HMIS-005
• By: BENETOLI, Arcelio (The University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sydney, Australia)
• Co-author(s): Arcelio Benetoli:|Nanda Puspita:Faculty of Pharmacy,The University of Sydney,Sydney,Australia|Timothy F Chen:Faculty of Pharmacy,The University of Sydney,Sydney,Australia|Parisa Aslani:Faculty of Pharmacy,The University of Sydney,Sydney,Australia
  
• Abstract:

  Social media (SM) is a popular new channel for communication and is being used for health purposes.

  The research comprised two phases: an observational study, which identified public chronic disease open Facebook (FB) groups whose content was quantitatively and qualitatively analysed; and consumer focus groups (n=5) (n=36 users of SM). Focus groups

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