Analysis of tweets discussing the risk of Mpox among children and young people in school (May-October 2022): a retrospective observational study.
| Autor: | Knudsen B; The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, USA., Høeg TB; Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.; Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark., Prasad V; Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA Vinayak.prasad@ucsf.edu. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | BMJ paediatrics open [BMJ Paediatr Open] 2024 Jan 31; Vol. 8 (1). Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 31. |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjpo-2023-002236 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To determine the number of tweets discussing the risk of Mpox to children and young people in school and (1) determine accuracy, (2) for inaccurate tweets, determine if risk was minimised or exaggerated and (3) describe the characteristics of the accounts and tweets which contained accurate versus inaccurate information. Design: Retrospective observational study. Setting: Twitter advanced search in January 2023 of tweets spanning 18 May 2022-19 September 2022. Participants: Accounts labelled as: MD, DO, nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, other healthcare provider, PhD, MPH, Ed. degree, JD, health/medicine/public policy reporter (including students or candidates) who tweeted about the risk of Mpox to children and young people in school. Exposures: Tweets containing the keywords 'school' and 'mpox', 'pox', or 'monkeypox' from May to October 2022. Measures: (1) The total and ratio of accurate versus inaccurate tweets, the latter further subdivided by exaggerating or minimising risk, and stratified by account author credential type. (2) The total likes, retweets and follower counts by accurate versus inaccurate tweets, by month and account credentials. (3) Twitter user exposure to inaccurate versus accurate tweets was estimated. Results: 262 tweets were identified. 215/262 (82%) were inaccurate and 215/215 (100%) of these exaggerated risks. 47/262 (18%) tweets were accurate. There were 163 (87%) unique authors of inaccurate tweets and 25 (13%) of accurate tweets. Among healthcare professionals, 86% (95/111) of tweets were inaccurate. Multiplying accuracy by followers and retweets, Twitter users were approximately 974× more likely to encounter inaccurate than accurate information. Conclusion: Credentialed Twitter users were 4.6 times more likely to tweet inaccurate than accurate messages. We also demonstrated how incorrect tweets can be quickly amplified by retweets and popular accounts. In the case of Mpox in children and young people, incorrect information always exaggerated risks. Competing Interests: Competing interests: VP Disclosures. (Research funding) Arnold Ventures (Royalties) Johns Hopkins Press, Medscape, and MedPage (Honoraria) Grand Rounds/lectures from universities, medical centers, non-profits, and professional societies. (Consulting) UnitedHealthcare and OptumRX. (Other) Plenary Session podcast has Patreon backers, YouTube, and Substack. TBH Disclosures. (Honoraria) Brownstone Institute, Global Liberty Institute. (Consulting) Florida Department of Health (Other) Substack, Sensibly Curious About Vaccines podcast, payment for writing at The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Hill and Tablet Magazine. BK reports no financial nor non-financial conflicts of interest. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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