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

To describe and compare social media (SM) use habits, and attitudes of medical and dental students toward e-professionalism and to determine their opinion on potentially unprofessional behavior and posts. In this quantitative cross-sectional questionnaire study, students of the University of Zagreb...

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Published in:Croatian medical journal 2021-12, Vol.62 (6), p.569-579
Main Authors: Viskić, Joško, Jokić, Dražen, Marelić, Marko, Machala Poplašen, Lovela, Relić, Danko, Sedak, Kristijan, Vukušić Rukavina, Tea
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude
Behavior
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dental students
Educational aspects
Ethical aspects
Habits
Humans
Medical students
Professional ethics
Professionalism
Social Media
Students, Medical
Surveys
Technology application
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Summary:To describe and compare social media (SM) use habits, and attitudes of medical and dental students toward e-professionalism and to determine their opinion on potentially unprofessional behavior and posts. In this quantitative cross-sectional questionnaire study, students of the University of Zagreb School of Medicine and those of the School of Dental Medicine completed a survey-specific questionnaire on the use of SM, SM habits, and attitudes toward e-professionalism. 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 Instagram (80.7%). Unprofessional content was recognized by both groups. Medical students significantly more frequently considered the posts containing patient photos (61% vs 89.8%; P
ISSN:0353-9504
1332-8166
DOI:10.3325/CMJ.2021.62.569