The Effects of a Social Media Policy on Pharmacy Students’ Facebook Security Settings
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OBJECTIVE: To examine how students entering a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program used Facebook privacy settings before and after the college's social media policy was presented to them. METHODS: The Facebook profiles of all entering first-year pharmacy students across 4 campuses of a college of pharmacy were evaluated. Ten dichotomous variables of interest were viewed and recorded for each student's Facebook account at 3 time points: before the start of the semester, after presentation of the college's social media policy, and at the end of the semester. Data on whether a profile could be found and what portions of the profile were viewable also were collected. RESULTS: After introduction of the policy, a significant number of students increased their security settings (made information not visible to the public) related to Facebook walls, information pages, and links. CONCLUSIONS: Making pharmacy students aware of a college's social media policy had a positive impact on their behaviors regarding online security and privacy.
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Previous work on health care education interventions and experiences has noted how learners may be motivated to reduce the hazards of social media, revise social media confidentiality settings, or even terminate social media involvement upon realizing that online postings may have an enduring presence.
“Previous work on health care education interventions and experiences has noted how learners may be motivated to reduce the hazards of SM, revise SM confidentiality settings, or even terminate SM involvement upon realizing that online postings may have an enduring presence [180,181].”
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- Authors
- Williams, J., Feild, C., & James, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- ORCID
- Feild, Carinda
- Venue
- American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-11
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 177
- ISSN
- 0002-9459 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3230338
- OpenAlex
- W2049721315
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 26.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- School of Health and Kinesiology, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska Omaha
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Keywords
- social media policy, online privacy, internet security, pharmacy students, PharmD students, social media awareness
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Public Policy, Students, Pharmacy, Universities, Organizational Policy, Privacy, Internet, Social Media
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