S3190 #COVID19: Twitter as a Resource for IBD Patients During a Global Pandemic

Autor: Marie L. Borum, Daniel Kerchner, Victoria Garland, Francis Carro-Cruz, Katrina Naik, Faraz Sohail, Leen Raddaoui, Matthew Tick, Abdalla Khouqeer
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: American Journal of Gastroenterology. 115:S1675-S1675
ISSN: 1572-0241
0002-9270
Popis: INTRODUCTION: In December 2019, a novel corona virus (COVID-19) emerged from Wuhan, China and within 3 months caused a global pandemic with high morbidity and mortality Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients may be at particular risk given immunocompromised state Since Twitter is a source of information sharing, this study evaluated frequency, content, and origin of Twitter messaging focused on COVID-19 and IBD METHODS: Social Feed Manager software (version 2 0 0: GWU Libraries, 2019) accessed Twitter's application programming interface to obtain user information, origin and content of social media posts related to COVID-19 and IBD between March 11 and 18, 2020 SFM queried Twitter for ≤COVID19 ≤CoronaVirus or ≤CoronaOutbreak AND any comment containing ?inflammatory bowel disease?, ?IBD?, ?Crohn's? or ?Ulcerative Colitis ? Messages that did not reference key terms and non-English messages were excluded Individual user descriptions, tweets, and linked websites were analyzed for content Analysis was performed using Chi-square, with significance set at P
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