A scoping review of WeChat to facilitate professional healthcare education in Mainland China.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

WeChat is the most popular social media platform in mainland China, with over 1 billion active users. Although social media is widely used in professional healthcare education in western countries, research on WeChat-based education in healthcare in mainland China is disparate and not systematic. The current study seeks to address this gap.

Method

A scoping review was conducted to systematically describe studies of WeChat use in professional healthcare education. A comprehensive search involving three international databases in English and Chinese literature was conducted in April 2019. Articles were retained in this study if they were original studies that used WeChat as a tool to facilitate healthcare education in mainland China.

Results

25 studies met the inclu

SUBMITTER: Luan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7482650 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature