Social media use habits, and attitudes toward e-professionalism among medicine and dental medicine students: a quantitative crosssectional study

Aim To describe and compare social media (SM) use hab - its, and attitudes of medical and dental students toward e-professionalism and to determine their opinion on po - tentially unprofessional behavior and posts. Methods In this quantitative cross-sectional question - naire study, students of the...

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Published in:Croatian Medical Journal 2021-12, Vol.62 (6), p.569
Main Authors: Viskić, Joško, Jokić, Dražen, Marelić, Marko, Poplašen, Lovela Machala, Relić, Danko, Sedak, Kristijan, Vukušić Rukavina, Tea
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Language:English
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Summary:Aim To describe and compare social media (SM) use hab - its, and attitudes of medical and dental students toward e-professionalism and to determine their opinion on po - tentially unprofessional behavior and posts. Methods In this quantitative cross-sectional question - naire study, students of the University of Zagreb School of Medicine and those of the School of Dental Medicine com - pleted a survey-specific questionnaire on the use of SM, SM habits, and attitudes toward e-professionalism. Results Of the 714 collected questionnaires, we analyzed 698 (411 from medical and 287 from dental students). The most commonly used SM were Facebook (99%) and Ins - tagram (80.7%). Unprofessional content was recognized by both groups. Medical students significantly more fre - quently considered the posts containing patient pho - tos (61% vs 89.8%; P
ISSN:0353-9504
1332-8166
DOI:10.3325/cmj.2021.62.569