Infoveillance of COVID-19 Infections in Dentistry Using Platform X: Descriptive Study (Preprint)

• DOI: 10.2196/preprints.54650
• Publication Date: 2023-11-22T22:32:19Z
• Authors: Alghalia Al-Mansoori; Ola Al Hayk; Sharifa Qassmi; Sarah M Aziz; Fatima Haouari; Tawanda Chivese; Faleh Tamimi; Alaa Daud
• Keywords: Pandemic

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being dental professionals and patients has been difficult to track quantify. X (previously known as Twitter) proved be a useful infoveillance tool for tracing impact worldwide. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> To investigate use infections deaths associated with practices. <title>METHODS</title> English Tweets reporting or practice were collected between January 1st 2020 until March 31st 2021. searched manually using XPro search engine Tweetdeck) automatically tweet crawler Academic Research API. Queries included keywords infection and/or death staff caused by COVID-19. registering events dentists, staff, part their conversation included. <title>RESULTS</title> A total 5,641 eligible tweets retrieved which 1,583 deemed relevant after applying inclusion exclusion criteria. Of tweets, 311 described at practices, where 1,168 cases reported amongst 134 41 patients. Most common Countries USA, India, Canada an age range 20-51. Six hundred described, 253 22 7 Pakistan, then India 23-83. <title>CONCLUSIONS</title> data suggests that analyses information in populations affected areas may provide regarding profession demonstrates correlation suspected confirmed cases. could effective early predictor spread particular disease. However, further research is needed assess its validity. <title>CLINICALTRIAL</title> N/A