Pharmacy students' use of social media sites and perception toward Facebook use
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Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate pharmacy students' adoption and behavior related to social networking sites (SNS) in general, and to Facebook in particular. In addition, this study aimed to explore faculty's adoption of Facebook from students' perspectives, as well as students' willingness, to "friend" their faculty. Materials and Methods: A 19-item questionnaire was administered to a sample of pharmacy students (n = 195) at a School of Pharmacy. The survey included three sections. All questions were closed-ended. The first section had general adoption questions for different SNS. The second section had questions with regard to students' behaviors and attitudes related to Facebook in particular. Demographic data was collected in the third section. Results: One hundred ninety-three pharmacy students completed the survey for a response rate of 99%. The top three social media websites with the most frequent usage were Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube respectively. Nearly, all the students (93.8%) had existing Facebook profiles. More than 70% of students had 200 or more Facebook friends at the time of data collection. Given the widespread adoption of Facebook, the majority of the respondents used it for social rather than professional or educational purposes. Even though 46.6% of participants thought that at least 40% of their faculty members use Facebook, slightly more than half of the participants (54.4%) refused the idea of "friending" their faculty. After conducting logistic regression, the predictors of "friending faculty" on Facebook among pharmacy students were the number of Facebook friends that a student has and race or ethnicity. Conclusions: There has been a huge growth in the number and the use of SNS. Students, if they choose to, can take advantage of this revolutionary communication tool to advance professionally. However, the majority of students still choose to use Facebook for social purposes rather than professional or educational purposes.
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Studies 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 [40]
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].”
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Only 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 [40]
The majority of pharmacy students were reluctant to friend faculty members at their school.
“However, the majority were still reluctant to “friend” faculty members at their school.”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [40]
From pharmacy students' perspectives, an active user is generally open to friending the outside world.
“From pharmacy students’ perspectives, an active user is generally open to “friending” the outside world.”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [40]
Pharmacy students believe that student-faculty interactions should remain professional, and social media sites are not appropriate venues for such professional communication.
“Students have beliefs that student-faculty interactions should remain professional, and SM sites are not appropriate venues for such professional communication [40].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [40]
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 [40]
Boundaries 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 [40]
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- Authors
- Alkhateeb, F., Alameddine, S., Attarabeen, O., Latif, D., Osolin, S., Khanfar, N., & Al-Rousan, R.
- Venue
- Archives of Pharmacy Practice
- Publisher
- Medknow
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 77
- ISSN
- 2045-080X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2471580364
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
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- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- Archives of Pharmacy Practice (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- NSUWorks (Nova Southeastern University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Educational Technology in Learning
- Keywords
- pharmacy students, social media use, Facebook, social networking sites, student-faculty relationships, Facebook friends
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