Social Media Use Among Living Kidney Donors and Recipients: Survey on Current Practice and Potential.
Abby Swanson KazleyBashir HamidiWendy BallietPrabhakar K BaligaPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2016)
Social media holds great promise for health-related education and awareness. Our study shows the current social media use of kidney transplant patients. In turn, such information can be used to design interventions to ensure appropriate decision making about live kidney donation. Transplant programs can help increase the number of living donors by providing guidance to kidney transplant patients in how to use social media, to be advocates, and to provide information about living kidney donation to their social network.
Keyphrases
- social media
- health information
- end stage renal disease
- healthcare
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- decision making
- prognostic factors
- primary care
- mental health
- public health
- machine learning
- risk assessment
- quality improvement
- cross sectional
- big data
- climate change
- sensitive detection
- human health
- network analysis