{"id":9177,"date":"2011-05-12T06:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T11:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2011-05-12T06:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T11:15:46","slug":"the-social-life-of-health-information-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2011\/05\/the-social-life-of-health-information-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"The Social Life of Health Information, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is: my 2010-11 yearbook! Will you sign it?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I feel about this latest report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Internet Project<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chcf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">California HealthCare Foundation<\/a>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2011\/Social-Life-of-Health-Info.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Social Life of Health Information, 2011<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 It contains all the insights we&#8217;ve gathered over the last year on mobile health, the health information divide, and peer-to-peer healthcare. It also contains updates on social media use in health and a few new activities. If you&#8217;re going to read just one of our reports, this is the one.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some new data points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 in 4  internet users have watched an online video about health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 in 4  internet users have tracked their weight, diet, exercise routine or other health  indicator online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 in 4  internet users have consulted online reviews of drugs or medical treatments (but  very few post such reviews).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The finding that goes  against what I might call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doseofdigital.com\/2011\/04\/lies-pharma-social-media-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">conventional rumor<\/a> is that Facebook is NOT a  significant source of health information.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, social network sites  like Facebook and MySpace have gained ground in the internet population over the past two years.  Sixty-two percent of internet users now say they use such sites, compared with  35% of internet users in 2008. However, the percentage of adults who turn to these sites for health  information remains low. Just 15% of social network site users, or 7% of adults, say they  use the sites to get health information. This is up only slightly from 2008,  when 11% of social network site users reported getting health information on  such sites.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, the trends are stable for all of the questions we asked in the 2008 and 2010  surveys \u2013 health topics, hospital review sites, doctor review sites, consumption  &amp; creation of user-generated content related to health.<\/p>\n<p>The major difference is how we wrote  up the findings. In the 2009 report, we emphasized the \u201ce-patient\u201d or \u201conline  health seeker\u201d population \u2013 internet users who go online for health information.  After talking with policymakers and industry leaders about how  internet use fits in to the overall picture of health care in the U.S., we decided to emphasize the  \u201cinternet user\u201d population and, in some cases, the U.S. adult population. In that way,  readers can compare our results to other studies\u2019 results which focus on  internet users and\/or U.S. adults. The full topline at the back of the current  report shows both the \u201conline health seeker\u201d and the \u201cinternet user\u201d results so  people can easily compare the \u201908 and \u201910 surveys.<\/p>\n<p>If you have only a few minutes, please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2011\/Social-Life-of-Health-Info\/Summary-of-Findings\/Section-1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">summary of findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a half-hour or so, please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2011\/Social-Life-of-Health-Info\/Part-1\/Section-2.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then come back here and let me know what you think! I&#8217;m eager to discuss the findings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is: my 2010-11 yearbook! Will you sign it? 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