Use of Social Media for Health-Related Tasks by Adolescents With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Step in the Pathway of Transition | Zendy

Winnie Szeto | Zendy; Annelotte van der Bent | Zendy; Carter R. Petty | Zendy; Jason Reich | Zendy; Francis A. Farraye | Zendy; Laurie N. Fishman | Zendy

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Use of Social Media for Health-Related Tasks by Adolescents With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Step in the Pathway of Transition

Author(s) -

Winnie Szeto,

Annelotte van der Bent,

Carter R. Petty,

Jason Reich,

Francis A. Farraye,

Laurie N. Fishman

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

inflammatory bowel diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.932

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1536-4844

pISSN - 1078-0998

DOI - 10.1093/ibd/izy021

Subject(s) - inflammatory bowel disease , transition (genetics) , medicine , disease , social media , inflammatory bowel diseases , psychology , biology , computer science , genetics , world wide web , gene

Social media is commonly used among the adolescent and young adult population, including those with chronic diseases. For adults, these platforms have been shown to be a major source of health information. Our aims were to explore how youth with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) use social media for (1) disease information gathering, (2) provider communication, (3) sense of belonging to the IBD community, (4) self-expression around IBD, and (5) disease management/monitoring.

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