Australian health professions student use of social media

Usher, Kim; Woods, Cindy; Casella, Evan; Glass, Nel; Wilson, Rhonda; Mayner, Lidia; Jackson, Debra; Brown, Janie; Duffy, Elaine; Mather, Carey; Cummings, Elizabeth; Irwin, Pauletta

doi:10.1016/j.colegn.2014.02.004

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Australian health professions student use of social media

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Usher, Kim, Woods, Cindy, Casella, Evan, Glass, Nel, Wilson, Rhonda, Mayner, Lidia, Jackson, Debra, Brown, Janie +4 more·2014·Collegian

DOI 10.1016/j.colegn.2014.02.004

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Increased bandwidth, broadband network availability and improved functionality have enhanced the accessibility and attractiveness of social media. The use of the Internet by higher education students has markedly increased. Social media are already used widely across the health sector but little is currently known of the use of social media by health profession students in Australia. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to explore health profession students' use of social media and their media preferences for sourcing information. An electronic survey was made available to health profession students at ten participating universities across most Australian states and territories. Respondents were 637 first year students and 451 final year students. The results for first and final year health profession students indicate that online media is the preferred source of information with only 20% of students nominating traditional peer-reviewed journals as a preferred information source. In addition, the results indicate that Facebook usage was high among all students while use of other types of social media such as Twitter remains comparatively low. As health profession students engage regularly with social media, and this use is likely to grow rather than diminish, educational institutions are challenged to consider the use of social media as a validated platform for learning and teaching.

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Some studies on healthcare students, mostly in Western and Westernized countries, showed the importance of implementing guidelines on professional social media use, but a limited number of studies targeted all categories of healthcare students.
“Some studies on healthcare students [21, 22], the majority of which done in Western and Westernized countries, showed the importance of implementing guidelines on the professional use of social media, but a limited number of studies [23–25] targeted all categories of healthcare students.”
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Authors: Usher, K., Woods, C., Casella, E., Glass, N., Wilson, R., Mayner, L., Jackson, D., Brown, J., Duffy, E., Mather, C., Cummings, E., & Irwin, P.
Affiliations: University of New England (AU)
James Cook University (AU)
Australian Catholic University (AU)
Flinders University (AU)
University of Technology Sydney (AU)
Curtin University (AU)
Griffith University (AU)
University of Tasmania (AU)
Southern Cross University (AU)
Corresponding author: Usher, Kim
Casella, Evan
Glass, Nel
Jackson, Debra
Brown, Janie
Duffy, Elaine
Mather, Carey
Cummings, Elizabeth
Irwin, Pauletta
ORCID: Usher, Kim
Woods, Cindy
Casella, Evan
Glass, Nel
Wilson, Rhonda
Mayner, Lidia
Jackson, Debra
Brown, Janie
Mather, Carey
Cummings, Elizabeth
Irwin, Pauletta
Venue: Collegian
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2014-06
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Pages: 95-101
ISSN: 1322-7696 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.colegn.2014.02.004
OpenAlex: W2147130610
Cited by: 99
References: 36
Citations by year: 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 3
FWCI: 15.70
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
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Licence: cc-by
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Collegian Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
ResearchOnline - JCU (James Cook University) (acceptedVersion)
EPubDev Repository (acceptedVersion)
eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) (submittedVersion)
Cross Connect (Southern Cross University) (submittedVersion)
Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
eSpace (Curtin University) (submittedVersion)
Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
RUNE (Research UNE) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Educational Technology in Learning
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web and Library Services
Keywords: social media use, health professions students, Facebook, Twitter, online learning, university students
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, Australia, Cross-Sectional Studies, Education, Medical, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Publications, Radio, Students, Health Occupations, Television, Information Dissemination, Young Adult, Social Media

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