Analysis of tweets discussing the risk of Mpox among children and young people in school (May-October 2022): a retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the number of tweets discussing the risk of Mpox to children and young people in school and (1) determine accuracy, (2) for inaccurate tweets, determine if risk was minimised or exaggerated and (3) describe the characteristics of the accounts and tweets which contained accurate versus inaccurate information.

Design

Retrospective observational study.

Setting

Twitter advanced search in January 2023 of tweets spanning 18 May 2022-19 September 2022.

Participants

Accounts labelled as: MD, DO, nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, other healthcare provider, PhD, MPH, Ed. degree, JD, health/medicine/public policy reporter (including students or candidates) who tweeted about the risk of Mpox to children and young people in school.

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SUBMITTER: Knudsen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10831422 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature