The second generation of Internet-based applications (i.e., Web 2.0), in which users control communication, holds promise to significantly enhance promotional efforts within social marketing campaigns. 2.0 can directly engage consumers the creative process by both producing and distributing information through collaborative writing, content sharing, networking, bookmarking, syndication. also power viral increasing speed at share experiences opinions with progressively larger audiences....

Despite the expanding use of social media, little has been published about its appropriate role in health promotion, and even less written evaluation. The purpose this article is threefold: (a) outline purposes for media (b) identify potential key performance indicators associated with these purposes, (c) propose evaluation metrics related to indicators. Process presented as an overarching strategy media.

Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States. Social media such as Twitter an emerging surveillance tool that may assist researchers tracking suicide risk factors real time.To identify suicide-related through conversations by matching on geographic rates from vital statistics data.At-risk tweets were filtered stream using keywords and phrases created factors. Tweets grouped state departures expectation calculated. The values for tweeters compared against national data actual...

Background: The introduction of Apple's iPhone provided a platform for developers to design third-party apps, which greatly expanded the functionality and utility mobile devices public health. Objective: This study provides an overview developers' written descriptions health fitness apps appraises each app's potential influencing behavior change. Methods: Data this came from content analysis app available on iTunes during February 2011. Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)...

Adderall is the most commonly abused prescription stimulant among college students. Social media provides a real-time avenue for monitoring public health, specifically this population.This study explores discussion of on Twitter to identify variations in volume around exam periods, differences across sets colleges and universities, mentioned side effects co-ingested substances.Public-facing status messages containing term "Adderall" were monitored from November 2011 May 2012. Tweets examined...

One of the leading causes death in United States (US) is suicide and new methods assessment are needed to track its risk real time.Our objective validate use machine learning algorithms for Twitter data against empirically validated measures suicidality US population.Using a algorithm, feeds 135 Mechanical Turk (MTurk) participants were compared with validated, self-report risk.Our findings show that people who at high suicidal can be easily differentiated from those not by algorithms, which...

Media agenda setting refers to the deliberate coverage of topics or events with goal influencing public opinion and policy. We conducted a quantitative content analysis 4 prominent newspapers examine how media gathered distributed news shape policy priorities during Hurricane Katrina. The framed most Katrina stories by emphasizing government response less often addressing individuals' communities' level preparedness responsibility. Hence, more articles covered recovery than mitigation...

Prescription drug abuse has become a major public health problem. Relationships and social context are important contributing factors. Social media provides online channels for people to build relationships that may influence attitudes behaviors.To determine whether who show signs of prescription connect with others reinforce this behavior, observe the conversation engagement these networks regard abuse.Twitter statuses mentioning drugs were collected from November 2011 2012. From set, 25...

We identified bullying victimization (bullied on school property versus cyberbullied) by selected demographic, personal characteristic, and behavior variables. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted adolescents (n = 13,583) completing the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) in grades 9 through 12. Being bullied past 12 months significantly more common females than males, earlier grades, Whites other racial groups compared with Blacks Hispanics. generally decreased later but...

Life expectancy in the US is on decline. Mental health issues associated with opioid abuse and suicide have been implicated for this decline necessitating new approaches procedures. While Public Health 3.0 provides a call to action stakeholders work closely together address such complex problems as these, less attention has given engaging supporting most important primary producers of within US: families households. The idea that begins at home discussed from perspective primary, secondary,...

Families strongly influence the health of communities and individuals across life course, but no validated measure family exists. The absence such a has limited examination trends intersection with individual community health. purpose this study was to examine reliability validity Family Health Scale (FHS), creating multi-factor long-form uniform short-form. primary sample included 1,050 adults recruited from national quota Qualtrics panel. Mplus version 7 used analyze data using structural...

Healthcare workers are highly regarded for their compassion, dedication, and composure. However, COVID-19 created unprecedented demands that rendered healthcare vulnerable to increased burnout, anxiety, depression. This cross-sectional study assessed the psychosocial impact of on U.S. frontliners using a 38-item online survey administered by Reaction Data between September December 2020. The included five validated scales assess self-reported burnout (Maslach Summative Burnout Scale),...

Abstract Background While the social determinants of health (SDOH) have a greater impact on individual outcomes than healthcare services person receives, providers face barriers to addressing these factors in clinical settings. Previous studies shown that often lack necessary knowledge and resources adequately screen for otherwise assist patients with unmet needs. This study explores perceptions behaviors related SDOH among United States (US). Methods cross-sectional analyzed data from...

Abstract Background: As social media use grows in popularity, health educators are challenged to think differently about how communicate with audiences. Purpose: The purpose of this study was explore and factors that determine acceptance among educators. Methods: A random sample Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) (N = 503) completed an online survey consisting items related the Unified Theory Acceptance Use Technology (UTAUT). Results: Findings revealed most commonly used...

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the whole individual. It acknowledges experiences and symptoms of trauma their impact health. TIC prioritizes physical emotional safety through relationship trust supports patient choice empowerment. provides safe respectful healing environment considers specific needs while promoting greater sense well-being, engagement, partnership in treatment process. Given prevalence trauma, this descriptive cross-sectional study...

Twitter is a micro-blogging application, which commonly used as way for individuals to maintain social connections. Social scientists have also begun using data source understanding more about human interactions. There very little research Twitter’s utility monitoring health related attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. The purpose of this study was examine the extent tweeted problem drinking, identify if such tweets corresponded with time periods when drinking likely occur. Data from came...

We examined the use of low-cost social media platforms in communicating public health messages and outline laugh model, a framework through which organizations can reach engage communities.In August 2014, we developed an online campaign (Web site media) to help promote healthy family meals Utah conjunction with state local departments.By end September total 3641 individuals had visited Utahfamilymeals.org Web site. Facebook ads reached 29 078 people, 56 900 people were Twitter ads. The...

Bullying, encompassing physical, psychological, social, or educational harm, affects approximately 1 in 20 United States teens aged 12-18. The prevalence and impact of bullying, including online necessitate a deeper understanding risk protective factors to enhance prevention efforts. This study investigated the key most highly associated with adolescent bullying victimization. Data from Student Health Risk Prevention (SHARP) survey, collected 345,506 student respondents Utah 2009 2021, were...

Protection motivation to practice preventive behaviors is necessary for sustained mitigation during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, limited research exists on the ecological sources of influence COVID-19 protection motivation.To explore (family health, media consumption, and loss work hours) motivation.An online quantitative survey U.S. adults (N = 501) aged 18 years or older was administered using Qualtrics with participants recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Data were...