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Indicators of adolescents’ preference to receive oral health information using social media
- Source :
- Acta Odontologica Scandinavica. 77:213-218
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2019.
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Abstract
- To assess (1) adolescents' preference to use social media (SM) to receive oral health information (OHI) and (2) factors associated with this preference.A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2016, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia including male middle school students. A questionnaire assessed explanatory variables including background, previous OHI seeking practices, internet use purposes, convenience of using SM for OHI and perceived usefulness of obtained OHI. The outcome variable was respondents' preference to use SM to receive OHI. Simple and multiple logistic regression models were used for statistical analysis.The response rate was 91.2% (456/500). Of those, 57.5% preferred using SM to receive OHI. The odds for this were significantly associated with being Saudi (OR = 3.12, 95%CI = 1.36, 7.18), previously using Twitter (OR = 4.59, 95%CI = 1.77, 11.89) and Instagram for OHI (OR = 2.60, 95%CI = 1.51, 4.45), frequent use of the internet to obtain OHI (OR = 1.25, 95%CI = 1.02, 1.54) and ease of obtaining OHI using the Internet (OR = 2.69, 95%CI = 1.5, 4.39).Most adolescents preferred using SM to receive OHI. This was associated with previous OHI seeking practices and convenience of using SM. These findings have implications for designing SM-based health education campaigns targeting adolescents.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Information Seeking Behavior
Saudi Arabia
Oral Health
Oral health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Social media
Health Education
General Dentistry
Internet
business.industry
030206 dentistry
General Medicine
Preference
Cross-Sectional Studies
Adolescent Behavior
Female
The Internet
business
Psychology
Social Media
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15023850 and 00016357
- Volume :
- 77
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5520e93029bc4561b65bf035a7a0ecfb