Objective Our aim was to evaluate the use and effectiveness of interventions using social
networking sites (SNSs) to change health behaviors. Materials and methods Five databases …

The increasing popularity of social networking sites (SNSs) has drawn scholarly attention in
recent years, and a large amount of efforts have been made in applying SNSs to health …

Background The dramatic growth of Web 2.0 technologies and online social networks offers
immense potential for the delivery of health behavior change campaigns. However, it is …

Background Social network technologies have become part of health education and wider
health promotion—either by design or happenstance. Social support, peer pressure, and …

Background There has been a growing interest in understanding the effects of social
networks on health-related behaviour, with a particular backdrop being the emerging …

Background: Social networking sites (SNSs) have the potential to increase the reach and
efficiency of essential public health services, such as surveillance, research, and …

Background To date, health research literature has focused on social network sites (SNS)
either as tools to deliver health care, to study the effect of these networks on behavior, or to …

Background Social media are an increasingly commonly used platform for delivering health
promotion interventions. Although recent research has focused on the effectiveness of social …

Aims and methods To conduct a systematic review of systematic reviews of the benefits and
harms (“effects”) of SM tools and platforms (such as Twitter and Facebook) in public health …

This article documents the emergence of social media, and specifically social network sites
(SNS) and their impact on health information–seeking and health-related behaviors. We …