The Use of Social Media for Health Research Purposes: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As social media are increasingly used worldwide, more and more scientists are relying on them for their health-related projects. However, social media features, methodologies, and ethical issues are unclear so far because, to our knowledge, there has been no overview of this relatively young field of research.

Objective

This scoping review aimed to provide an evidence map of the different uses of social media for health research purposes, their fields of application, and their analysis methods.

Methods

We followed the scoping review methodologies developed by Arksey and O'Malley and the Joanna Briggs Institute. After developing search strategies based on keywords (eg, social media, health research), comprehensive searches were conducted in the PubMed/MEDLIN

SUBMITTER: Bour C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193478 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature