Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Deborah Neffa-Creech, Aaron Plant, Jorge A. Montoya, Rangell Oruga, Elizabeth A. Kilgore, Renee Fraser, Lello Tesema
Summary: This study describes a social marketing campaign that aimed to prevent and reduce methamphetamine use in Los Angeles County. The results showed that campaign exposure was associated with more negative attitudes, fewer days of use, and considerations of abstaining.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gregory Eady, Tom Paskhalis, Jan Zilinsky, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker
Summary: This study uses longitudinal survey data and Twitter data of US respondents to quantify the relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and attitudes and voting behavior in the 2016 US election. The results show that exposure to Russian disinformation accounts was primarily concentrated among strongly identified Republican users, with only 1% of users accounting for 70% of exposures. Furthermore, the influence of the Russian campaign was overshadowed by content from domestic news media and politicians. Importantly, no meaningful relationship was found between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Business
L. Javier Cabeza-Ramirez, Sandra M. Sanchez-Canizares, Luna M. Santos-Roldan, Fernando J. Fuentes-Garcia
Summary: This paper fills a gap in the literature by analyzing the interconnection between observational learning, product involvement, and perceived risk on the effectiveness of influencers' recommendations. The results reveal the impact of risk on product attitude and purchase intention, although the predictive power was lower than expected.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Adrian Abbasi-Perez, Miguel Angel Alvarez-Mon, Carolina Donat-Vargas, Miguel A. Ortega, Jorge Monserrat, Ana Perez-Gomez, Melchor Alvarez-Mon
Summary: Twitter has become a popular platform for sharing information on rheumatology drugs, with patients, healthcare professionals, institutions, and others actively participating. This study analyzed tweets related to 16 rheumatology drugs to determine the volume, content, and type of users. Methotrexate (MTX) was the most discussed drug, with patients and their relatives being the main contributors, while professionals, institutions, and patient associations focused on TNF inhibitors. Medical content prevailed in most tweets, with efficacy being the most discussed topic. Inappropriate or fake content was found to be very low.
Article
Rheumatology
Florian Bailly, Martin Badard, Johann Beaudreuil, Catherine Beauvais, Carlos Cazorla, Denoel Ohouo, Xavier Dufour, Karine Petitprez, Mohamed Mazza, Julien Nizard, Audrey Petit, Thao Pham, Francois Rannoun, Patricia Ribiniko, Sylvie Rozenberg, Stephanie Schramm, Bruno Fautrel, Violaine Foltz
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of a national back pain campaign in France conducted between 2017 and 2019 on the beliefs and behaviors of the general population and general practitioners. The results showed that the campaign significantly modified people's beliefs and behaviors about low back pain.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Christopher J. Williams, Elissa C. Kranzler, Joseph N. Luchman, Benjamin Denison, Sean Fischer, Thomas Wonder, Ronne Ostby, Monica Vines, Jessica Weinberg, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Allison N. Kurti, Sarah Trigger, Leah Hoffman, Joshua F. A. Peck
Summary: The "We Can Do This" public education campaign launched by the US Department of Health and Human Services in April 2021 has been successful in increasing vaccine uptake. The campaign utilizes various channels to reach target audiences and has shown a positive impact on first-dose COVID-19 vaccination among US adults.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Business
Susan Myers, Holly A. Syrdal, Raj Mahto, Sandipan S. Sen
Summary: Religion plays a significant role in American consumers' spending habits, contributing trillions to the economy annually. With Christians being the majority, influencer marketing has become effective in reaching this critical segment through social media endorsements. However, there is a lack of research on the complexities of religious advertising and influencer marketing. To address this gap, this study examines the relationship between message cues in Christian influencers' social media posts and follower engagement using 20,068 Facebook posts, 20,517 tweets, and 13,857 Instagram posts. The findings highlight the impact of religious and promotional cues on engagement, as well as the varying effects of social media cues across different platforms.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Sonia Paytubi, Yolanda Benavente, Alexandra Montoliu, Gemma Binefa, Maria Brotons, Raquel Ibanez, Cristian Ochoa, Paula Peremiquel-Trillas, Beatriz Serrano, Noemie Travier, Laia Alemany, Laura Costas
Summary: This study aimed to understand the beliefs and attitudes towards cancer prevention among individuals who are skeptical of vaccinations or believe in conspiracy theories. The findings indicate that these individuals have limited knowledge about the actual causes of cancer and are more likely to endorse mythical causes.
BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Annika Molenaar, Wei Yee Saw, Linda Brennan, Mike Reid, Megan S. C. Lim, Tracy A. McCaffrey
Summary: Young adults are frequently exposed to energy-dense, nutrient-poor food and beverages, mainly through advertising on social media. They are more likely to recall unhealthy food advertisements compared to healthy ones. Digital ads are discussed along with ad-blockers and personalized algorithms on social media platforms.
Article
Education & Educational Research
John G. K. Inman, David R. Ellard
Summary: This study investigated the beliefs of graduate medical students about LBP and what influences them. The findings suggest that graduate medical students in this sample tend to have positive beliefs about the outcome of LBP and functional expectations of chronic LBP patients. The qualitative data highlights the complexity of how medical students form beliefs about the causes and management of LBP.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Business
Marcello M. Mariani, Maria Ek Styven, Rajan Nataraajan
Summary: This study examines the drivers of social comparison frequency on Facebook among international travel bloggers using a social comparison theory perspective. The results suggest a strongly positive relationship between social comparison frequency on Facebook and the Ability dimension of social comparison orientation, as well as with opinion leadership. Professional travel bloggers are more likely to be opinion leaders, while non-professional travel bloggers tend to compare themselves with others on Facebook more often as a strategic way to enhance visibility.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Business
Fangfang Li, Jorma Larimo, Leonidas C. Leonidou
Summary: The researchers defined social media marketing strategies and analyzed their development process. They proposed a classification method for SMMS into four different types, and validated it through empirical research and data verification, and then suggested future research directions.
JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
L. de Anta, M. A. Alvarez-Mon, C. Donat-Vargas, F. J. Lara-Abelanda, V. Pereira-Sanchez, C. Gonzalez Rodriguez, F. Mora, M. A. Ortega, J. Quintero, M. Alvarez-Mon
Summary: This study examines public views on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) by analyzing Twitter posts. Healthcare providers were the main publishers of ECT-related content, but more than half of the tweets had joking or trivializing contents. Personal opinions on ECT were mostly negative.
EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Belinda D'Costa, Roanna Lobo, Amanda Sibosado, Justine E. Leavy, Gemma Crawford, James Ward
Summary: This study evaluated the impacts of the Young Deadly Syphilis Free campaign on young Aboriginal people and health and community workers in remote Australian regions. The findings show that the campaign effectively raised awareness about syphilis and led to behavioral changes among young people and improvements in professional practice among health and community workers.
Article
Communication
Ariel Hasell, Sedona Chinn
Summary: This study examines the political implications of social media use and finds that aspirational use is associated with anti-intellectualism and holding more inaccurate beliefs, but not with overall distrust of science. These relationships are moderated by political affiliation, so that the attitudes and beliefs of Democrats and Republicans are similar at high levels of aspirational social media use.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Rehabilitation
Erin McCabe, Mary Roduta Roberts, Maxi Miciak, Haowei (Linda) Sun, Douglas P. Gross
Summary: This paper validates a new patient-reported measure, the Physiotherapy Therapeutic Relationship Measure (P-TREM), for evaluating the therapeutic relationship between patients and physiotherapists. The results show that the P-TREM performs well in terms of internal structure, internal consistency, and construct validity, making it suitable for clinical research to understand the therapeutic relationship in patients with longstanding musculoskeletal conditions.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY
(2023)
Article
Anesthesiology
Pieter Coenen, Astrid de Wind, Peter van de Ven, Marianne De Maaker-Berkhof, Bart Koes, Rachelle Buchbinder, Jan Hartvigsen, Johannes Han R. Anema
Summary: In the Netherlands, de-implementation of non-evidence-based hospital treatments for low back pain took several decades, resulting in significant waste of resources and avoidable harm to patients.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Ilana N. Ackerman, Rachelle Buchbinder, Lyn March
Summary: This study examines the trends in the burden of osteoarthritis (OA) in Australia from 1990 to 2019 and compares it with other common conditions associated with older age. The results show a significant growth in the prevalence of OA and the associated disability. The burden of OA is higher than other common health conditions, highlighting the need for enhanced prevention and management.
INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Rheumatology
Christopher McMaster, David F. L. Liew, Susan Lester, Adam Rischin, Rachel J. Black, Vibhasha Chand, Ashley Fletcher, Marissa N. Lassere, Lyn March, Philip C. Robinson, Rachelle Buchbinder, Catherine L. Hill
Summary: This study aimed to determine the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy rates among inflammatory arthritis patients and identify factors associated with changing vaccine hesitancy over time. The findings showed that beliefs about medication harm and overuse before the pandemic were associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Furthermore, individuals who did not seek vaccine information from healthcare professionals were more likely to develop vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic.
Article
Rheumatology
Megan Thomas, Deborah A. Marshall, Adalberto Loyola Sanchez, Susan J. Bartlett, Annelies Boonen, Liana Fraenkel, Laurie Proulx, Marieke Voshaar, Nick Bansback, Rachelle Buchbinder, Francis Guillemin, Mickael Hiligsmann, Dawn P. Richards, Pamela Richards, Beverley Shea, Peter Tugwell, Marie Falahee, Glen S. Hazlewood
Summary: The study explores the perceptions of stakeholders in rheumatology regarding the use of preference elicitation methods in clinical trial design. The findings suggest that preference elicitation studies can improve trial design, but various considerations need to be taken into account. Future research should focus on developing comprehensive guidance for incorporating patient preferences in rheumatology trial design.
SEMINARS IN ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM
(2023)
Editorial Material
Rehabilitation
Jessica DeMars, Darren A. Brown, Ippokratis Angelidis, Fiona Jones, Francis McGuire, Kelly K. O'Brien, Daria Oller, Sue Pemberton, Rachel Tarrant, Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Douglas P. Gross
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Anneliese Synnot, Kelvin Hill, Julie Davey, Kevin English, Samuel L. Whittle, Rachelle Buchbinder, Suzie May, Heath White, Alexander Meredith, Eleanor Horton, Rebecca Randall, Anneka Patel, Stella O'Brien, Tari Turner
Summary: This study describes and reflects on the consumer engagement approaches used in five living guidelines from the perspectives of consumers and guideline developers. The study captures engagement approaches and experiences of consumers and guideline developers in living guidelines in Australia and the United Kingdom. Results indicate common experiences across guidelines and identify six specific challenges and opportunities in living guidelines.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Orthopedics
T. Karjalainen, R. Buchbinder
Summary: Tennis elbow is a self-limiting condition in most patients, and surgery is often offered to those who fail to improve with conservative treatment. However, there is no evidence to support the superiority of surgery over continued nonoperative care or no treatment. New evidence suggests that the prognosis of tennis elbow is not influenced by the duration of symptoms, challenging the belief that failed nonoperative care is an indication for surgery. In this annotation, the clinical and research implications of the benign clinical course of tennis elbow are discussed.
BONE & JOINT JOURNAL
(2023)
Editorial Material
Rehabilitation
Stefano Negrini, Kristian Borg, Anne Cusick, Giorgio Ferriero, Walter R. Frontera, Douglas P. Gross, Allen Heinemann, Wendy Machalicek, Ann Patricia Moore, Randolph J. Nudo, Dominic Perennou, Henk Stam, Carlotte Kiekens
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Suzanne Nielsen, Rachelle Buchbinder, Christopher Pearce, Dan Lubman, Samanta Lalic, Romi Haas, Louisa Picco, Monica Jung, Helena Cangadis-Douglass, Jenni Ilomaki, J. Simon Bell, Ting Xia
Summary: The OPPICO cohort is a population-based cohort created to understand opioid prescribing, policy impacts, and clinical outcomes. This paper provides a profile of the study cohort by summarizing available demographic, clinical, and prescribing characteristics.
Review
Economics
Sean Docking, Lan Gao, Zanfina Ademi, Christian Bonello, Rachelle Buchbinder
Summary: There is limited evidence on the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic imaging for back, neck, knee, and shoulder complaints. Decision analytic modelling studies are needed to address methodological and knowledge gaps in this area. It is important to assess the value for money of these commonly used diagnostic imaging services.
APPLIED HEALTH ECONOMICS AND HEALTH POLICY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Rehabilitation
Christopher G. Maher, Aline Archambeau, Rachelle Buchbinder, Simon D. French, Julia Morphet, Michael K. Nicholas, Peter O'Sullivan, Marie Pirotta, Michael J. Yelland, Leo Zeller, Nivene Saad, Elizabeth Marles, Alice L. Bhasale, Christina Lane
CHIROPRACTIC & MANUAL THERAPIES
(2023)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marianne Wilhelmina Maria Christina Six Dijkstra, Hendrik J. Bieleman, Remko Soer, Michiel F. Reneman, Douglas P. Gross
Summary: The aging workforce has an impact on employability and health, and the focus has shifted to enhancing the ability to stay at work. Factors contributing to staying at work among industrial workers were identified and mapped against a commonly used return to work model. Most factors aligned with the model, but new multidimensional factors were found.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Danielle Johnston, Lesley Pritchard, Erin Branton, Douglas P. Gross, Sandy Thompson-Hodgetts
Summary: This study describes the patterns of visual-motor integration, visual perception, and fine motor coordination abilities in children with confirmed prenatal alcohol exposure. The results show that these children face more challenges in fine motor coordination, while performing well in visual-motor integration and visual perception. Therefore, fine motor coordination should be included in the diagnostic assessment and intervention for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS
(2023)
Article
Rheumatology
Andrea Lyon, Alannah Quinlivan, Susan Lester, Claire Barrett, Samuel L. Whittle, Debra Rowett, Rachel Black, Premarani Sinnathurai, Lyn March, Rachelle Buchbinder, Catherine L. Hill
Summary: This study aims to determine vaccination rates, perceptions, and information sources in people with inflammatory arthritis. The results showed that participants generally held positive views about vaccination, but there was considerable uncertainty as to which vaccines were recommended for them, highlighting the need for improved consumer information.
ACR OPEN RHEUMATOLOGY
(2023)
