Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Piszczek, CC
• Farag, S
• Foley, CE
• Overcarsh, P
• Yunker, AC
• Ecker, AM

Titel

Social Media Use in Patients with Gynecologic Pain

Ist Teil von

• Journal of minimally invasive gynecology, 2019-11, Vol.26 (7), p.S80-S80

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To determine if patients with gynecologic pain are more likely than patients without gynecologic pain to use social media to learn about or manage their condition. Comparative prospective patient survey. Six hospital systems across country, university-based and community-based. 497 patients who presented to an FMIGS-affiliated clinic and consented to participate in the survey. Subjects self-determined if their gynecologic visit was related to pain. Those with pain were in the Study group. Those without pain were in the Control group. Subjects independently completed a survey regarding their internet and social media use in relation to their gynecologic care. The minimum number of subjects needed to detect a 10% difference in the primary outcome was 471 subjects. Fisher's exact test was used to test for significance at a power of 80% and an alpha of .05. 497 subjects enrolled in the study. 459 of 497 (92.4%) of enrolled subjects completed the study survey, 321 (69.6%) with pain (Study group) and 138 (30.1%) without pain (Control group). The median age of participants was 39 years (IQR 29-55) in the Pain group and 42 years (IQR 31-54) in the Control group. 119/321 (37.1%) subjects in the Pain group and 27/138 (19.6%) of subjects in the Control group reported using social media to learn about or manage their gynecologic condition; this difference was statistically significant (p<.01). 284/321 (88.5%) of subjects in the Pain group and 95/138 (68.8%) of subjects in the Control group reported using the internet to learn about or manage their gynecologic condition (p<01). Forty-three percent of both Pain and Control group subjects reported using on-line physician rating sites prior to seeing their provider. Patients with gynecologic pain were more likely than those without pain to use social media to learn about or manage their condition.