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Perception of Healthcare Providers About the Use of Social Media to Manage a Healthy Diet in Saudi Arabia
- Source :
- Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021), Frontiers in Public Health
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
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Abstract
- Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the perceptions of healthcare providers about the use of social media for healthy diet management in Saudi Arabia.Participants and Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the use of social media healthy diet management. The sample constituted 308 healthcare professionals from Saudi Arabia. The social media application, WhatsApp is employed to distribute the questionnaire, which has achieved a response rate of 50.61%. Out of the total participants, 55% of the participants were under 30 years of age, 71% were females, and 55% of the participants had a bachelor's degree.Results: Among the total respondents, 66% used social networking applications more than four hours a day, and 78% utilized social media to get information about a healthy diet. The respondents employed the following platforms for this purpose: Instagram (27%), YouTube (19%), Snapchat (19%), WhatsApp (18%), Twitter (8%), and Facebook (5%). The respondents considered that social media is very helpful to educate (44%), communicate with specialists (33%), and get applications for a healthy diet (38%). They held an opinion that social media is very helpful in improving knowledge about a healthy diet (47%), creating diet awareness (42%), and achieving healthy diet outcomes (37%) and lifestyle (37%).Conclusion: According to the perception of health providers, social media can be used to promote healthy diet management in Saudi Arabia. Also, the growing use of social media in Saudi Arabia represents the potential to create programs that encourage and promote healthy eating habits in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and WhatsApp platforms can be used for this purpose.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
social networks
030309 nutrition & dietetics
Health Personnel
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Saudi Arabia
food diet
perception
Bachelor
manage
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Perception
Health care
Humans
Medicine
Social media
030212 general & internal medicine
Aged
Original Research
media_common
Response rate (survey)
0303 health sciences
Health professionals
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
healthcare
Healthy diet
Cross-Sectional Studies
Family medicine
Female
Public Health
Diet, Healthy
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
business
Social Media
Healthcare providers
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22962565
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....13688f47c6b978985de9ee7f4d6f99bf