Background Several disease-specific information exchanges now exist on Facebook and
other online social networking sites. These new sources of knowledge, support, and …

Introduction: Relatively little is known about how Facebook groups are used to facilitate
diabetes self-management support. This study provides a critical analysis of public diabetes …

The use of Facebook groups by health care researchers and professionals for chronic
disease management, namely type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease, is in its …

Background Diabetes patient associations and diabetes-specific patient groups around the
world are present on social media. Although active participation and engagement in these …

As one of the largest social networking sites in the world, Facebook holds a great potential
for promoting health. In this exploratory study, we analyzed 1352 messages posted to an …

Background Increasingly, people are using Facebook (FB) to share health information.
However, little is known about the type of information sharing and its potential health …

Background Diabetes is one of the most challenging chronic health conditions in the current
era. Diabetes-related foot problems need proper patient education, and social media could …

Methods In June 2012 we used NVivo 10 to collect all tweets ever posted from every LHD
with a Twitter account and identified tweets about diabetes. We used a 2010 National …

Background Patient engagement with diabetes self-care is critical to reducing morbidity and
mortality. Social media is one form of digital health that is available for diabetes self-care …

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