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Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use
In the past 5 years, social media use among plastic surgeons has grown to become a common modality used to promote one’s practice. However, surgeons lack the necessary ethical training to understand how their published content impacts patient opinions and behavior. Social media trends among plastic...
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10184994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37197009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000005009 |
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author | Robinson, Samuel G. Mandel, Asher Nicosia, Jeanette Siegel, Jacob Hamidian Jahromi, Alireza |
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description | In the past 5 years, social media use among plastic surgeons has grown to become a common modality used to promote one’s practice. However, surgeons lack the necessary ethical training to understand how their published content impacts patient opinions and behavior. Social media trends among plastic surgeons may contribute to the reduced rate of Black (non-White) patients accessing gender affirming surgery. METHODS: In total, 250 gender affirming surgeons and 51,698 individual posts from social media platform, Instagram, were manually extracted and analyzed. Posts were assessed for inclusion and categorized by the subject’s skin color (White versus non-White) using the Fitzpatrick scale. RESULTS: Of the 3101 included posts, 375 (12.1%) portrayed non-White subjects. Of the 56 included surgeons, White surgeons were found to be 2.3 times less likely to include non-White subjects in their posts, compared with non-White surgeons. Regionally, surgeons practicing in the Northeast had the most racially diverse social media accounts, with over 20% of all posts including a non-White subject. Analyzing data over the past 5 years demonstrated no relative increase in the amount of non-White subjects being displayed on social media, while social media use by gender affirming surgeons had increased by over 200%. CONCLUSIONS: The low number of non-White individuals portrayed by surgeons on social media perpetuates the racial disparity seen in patients accessing gender affirming surgery. Surgeons must be conscious of the demographic they portray on social media, as a lack of representation may influence patients’ self-identify and decision to utilize gender affirming surgical treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-101849942023-05-16 Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use Robinson, Samuel G. Mandel, Asher Nicosia, Jeanette Siegel, Jacob Hamidian Jahromi, Alireza Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Gender-Affirming Surgery In the past 5 years, social media use among plastic surgeons has grown to become a common modality used to promote one’s practice. However, surgeons lack the necessary ethical training to understand how their published content impacts patient opinions and behavior. Social media trends among plastic surgeons may contribute to the reduced rate of Black (non-White) patients accessing gender affirming surgery. METHODS: In total, 250 gender affirming surgeons and 51,698 individual posts from social media platform, Instagram, were manually extracted and analyzed. Posts were assessed for inclusion and categorized by the subject’s skin color (White versus non-White) using the Fitzpatrick scale. RESULTS: Of the 3101 included posts, 375 (12.1%) portrayed non-White subjects. Of the 56 included surgeons, White surgeons were found to be 2.3 times less likely to include non-White subjects in their posts, compared with non-White surgeons. Regionally, surgeons practicing in the Northeast had the most racially diverse social media accounts, with over 20% of all posts including a non-White subject. Analyzing data over the past 5 years demonstrated no relative increase in the amount of non-White subjects being displayed on social media, while social media use by gender affirming surgeons had increased by over 200%. CONCLUSIONS: The low number of non-White individuals portrayed by surgeons on social media perpetuates the racial disparity seen in patients accessing gender affirming surgery. Surgeons must be conscious of the demographic they portray on social media, as a lack of representation may influence patients’ self-identify and decision to utilize gender affirming surgical treatment. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10184994/ /pubmed/37197009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000005009 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. |
spellingShingle | Gender-Affirming Surgery Robinson, Samuel G. Mandel, Asher Nicosia, Jeanette Siegel, Jacob Hamidian Jahromi, Alireza Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use |
title | Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use |
title_full | Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use |
title_fullStr | Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use |
title_full_unstemmed | Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use |
title_short | Racial Disparity in Gender Affirming Surgery: A Comparative Study on Plastic Surgeon Social Media Use |
title_sort | racial disparity in gender affirming surgery: a comparative study on plastic surgeon social media use |
topic | Gender-Affirming Surgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10184994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37197009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000005009 |
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