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The Use of Social Media by Healthcare Quality Personnel in Saudi Arabia
المؤلفون المشاركون
Alanzi, Turki
Al-Habib, Doaa Khalid
المصدر
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
العدد
المجلد 2020، العدد 2020 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2020)، ص ص. 1-9، 9ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2020-05-22
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
9
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Purpose.
The objective of this research was to investigate the use of social media for educational purposes by healthcare quality personnel in Saudi Arabia.
Participants and Methods.
A cross-sectional design study was carried out with 78 healthcare quality employees working in different hospitals in Saudi Arabia.
The survey was distributed through WhatsApp, and the data were collected during November 2019.
The results were analyzed and expressed in percentages using basic statistic tools.
Results.
More than half of the participants (74.36%) were under 40 years old, and the gender was equally distributed among them.
The participants used the following social media in decreasing order for educational purposes: YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook.
The largest proportion of them employed YouTube, and the least used social media network was Facebook.
The majority of them (58.87%) employed these platforms more than 3 hours daily.
Most respondents (82%) agreed that social media can be used to educate on healthcare quality topics, and YouTube was the preferred platform for this goal.
The reasons for using social media for professional purposes were networking (27%), education and professional development (24%), and health promotion (13%).
Most of the responses considered that social media networks were somehow helpful and very helpful for improving knowledge about the profession (96.20%), improving creativity (90%), improving decision making (83.33%), improving critical skills (80.77%), and improving problem-solving abilities (79.49%).
Conclusion.
The findings showed that a high percentage of the healthcare quality personnel in Saudi Arabia used social media for educational purposes, and the most used platform for this objective was YouTube.
The results suggested that social media can be potentially useful to perceive healthcare quality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Alanzi, Turki& Al-Habib, Doaa Khalid. 2020. The Use of Social Media by Healthcare Quality Personnel in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Environmental and Public Health،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184183
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Alanzi, Turki& Al-Habib, Doaa Khalid. The Use of Social Media by Healthcare Quality Personnel in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Environmental and Public Health No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184183
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Alanzi, Turki& Al-Habib, Doaa Khalid. The Use of Social Media by Healthcare Quality Personnel in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184183
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1184183
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