Older and wiser? First year BDS graduate entry students and their views on using social media and professional practice
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Studies showed privacy settings deployment from 71% to 97% among health care professionals.
“Studies showed privacy settings deployment from 71% to 97% among HCPs [40,42,65,66,68,96,100,115,117,118].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
The Results (pp. 4–5) describe 22 first-year dental students, only two of whom said they did not routinely use social-media privacy settings—implying about 91% did, within the claimed range. The paper does not establish that rate among practising health care professionals, nor does it supply the 71% and 97% endpoints. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredOnly 4 studies explicitly stated the percentage of students who had set their Facebook account on private: 37% of pharmacy students, 83.6% and 91% of dental students, and 71% of medical students.
“Only 4 studies explicitly stated the percentage of students who had set their Facebook account on private: 37% of pharmacy students [40], 83.6% and 91% of dental students [64,65], and 71% of medical students [42].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
The Results (pp. 4–5) describe 22 dental students and report that only two did not routinely use privacy settings, consistent with approximately 91% using them. The paper does not say that 91% had set their Facebook accounts to private; its finding concerns social media privacy settings generally. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredStudies found high social media use among students, ranging from 66.9% to 98.7%.
“Studies that assessed SM use among different types of HCPs found high use among students, from 66.9% to 98.7% [40,43,50,51,60,61,64-66,68-70,102]”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
The Abstract (p. 1) reports high social media use: all students in this study used social media sites. But its reported figure is 100%, outside the citing sentence’s stated range of 66.9% to 98.7%. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredEven if institutions have social media policies or guidelines, health care professionals acknowledged reluctant behavior regarding existing social media policies or ignorance of their existence.
“Contrary to that finding, even if institutions have SM policies or guidelines, HCPs acknowledged reluctant behavior regarding existing SM policies [78,85,114] or ignorance to their existence [61,64,65,100].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
The Results (p. 7) report that nine first-year dental students were unaware of legal or ethical guidelines on social-media use, supporting the cited claim's ignorance-of-guidelines portion. The Introduction (p. 3) describes university policies, but the paper does not establish that students were unaware of those specific institutional policies; its findings also concern dental students rather than healthcare professionals generally. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredBoundaries are blurred between patients and health care professionals, and between students and faculty.
“Boundaries are blurred between patients and HCPs, and between students and faculty [40, 43, 47, 59, 64, 65, 68, 70, 73, 75, 78, 82, 85, 98, 100, 105, 107, 114, 117].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
In the Results (pp. 6–7), students say that accepting a patient’s friend request blurs professional lines and that interacting with university staff may break a professional barrier. The Discussion (p. 8) likewise describes a possible boundary breach with staff. These passages support the concern for both relationships, but describe a risk rather than establish that boundaries are generally blurred. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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Even if institutions have social media policies or guidelines, health care professionals acknowledged reluctant behavior regarding existing social media policies or ignorance to their existence.
“Our results show that even though a lack of SM policies was recognized as a barrier, even if institutions have SM policies or guidelines, HCPs acknowledged reluctant behavior regarding existing SM policies [78,85,114] or ignorance to their existence [61,64,65,100].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
The Results (p. 7) report that nine first-year dental students were unaware of legal or ethical guidance on social media, supporting the point about ignorance of guidance. The paper does not establish that they were unaware of an existing institutional social media policy, and its participants were students rather than health care professionals generally. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredA total of 11 studies conducted in-depth or semistructured interviews, and 6 studies used focus groups.
“A total of 11 studies conducted in-depth or semistructured interviews [34,36,44,49,58,65,73,76,97,104,117], and 6 studies used focus groups [45,49,58,70,112,117].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
Of the survey studies, only about one-third had a response rate of 50% or greater, and 9 studies did not explicitly report a response rate.
“Of these survey studies, only about one-third had a response rate of 50% or greater, and 9 studies did not explicitly report a response rate [39,53,60,63,65,67,72,75,96].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
Numerous studies document blurred boundaries between patients and health care professionals, and between students and faculty.
“Numerous studies document blurred boundaries between patient and HCPs, and between students and faculty [40, 43, 47, 59, 64, 65, 68, 70, 73, 75, 78, 82, 85, 98, 100, 105, 107, 114, 117].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
Dental students are ambivalent toward friending a faculty member.
“Dental students are ambivalent toward “friending” a faculty member [65].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [65]
There are no validated instruments for assessing attitude towards e-professionalism of medical and dental students.
“Many studies have investigated aspects of e-professionalism of medical or dental students as future health professionals, but there are no validated instruments made for assessing attitude towards e-professionalism of those two populations.”
From Development and validation of scale for measuring attitudes towards e-professionalism among medical and dental students: SMePROF-S scale (2021) · cites this paper as [20]
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- Authors
- Knott, P. N., & Wassif, H. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Lancashire (GB)
- University of Bedfordshire (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Wassif, H. S.
- ORCID
- Wassif, H. S.
- Venue
- British Dental Journal
- Published
- 2018-08-31
- Volume
- 225
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 437-440
- ISSN
- 0007-0610 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-5373
- OpenAlex
- W2888992776
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 1.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- BDJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CLOK (University of Central Lancashire) (acceptedVersion)
- University of Bedfordshire Repository (University of Bedfordshire) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Dental Education, Practice, Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
- Keywords
- social media use, dental students, professional ethics, legal guidelines, dental professionalism, online professional conduct, dental curriculum
- MeSH terms
- Professionalism, Adult, Education, Dental, Graduate, Female, United Kingdom, Humans, Male, Professional Practice, Surveys and Questionnaires, Students, Medical, Young Adult, Social Media
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