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Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page
BACKGROUND: Social media platforms are increasingly being used to support individuals in behavior change attempts, including smoking cessation. Examining the interactions of participants in health-related social media groups can help inform our understanding of how these groups can best be leveraged...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987490/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27485315 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5574 |
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author | Cole-Lewis, Heather Perotte, Adler Galica, Kasia Dreyer, Lindy Griffith, Christopher Schwarz, Mary Yun, Christopher Patrick, Heather Coa, Kisha Augustson, Erik |
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description | BACKGROUND: Social media platforms are increasingly being used to support individuals in behavior change attempts, including smoking cessation. Examining the interactions of participants in health-related social media groups can help inform our understanding of how these groups can best be leveraged to facilitate behavior change. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of participation, self-reported smoking cessation length, and interactions within the National Cancer Institutes’ Facebook community for smoking cessation support. METHODS: Our sample consisted of approximately 4243 individuals who interacted (eg, posted, commented) on the public Smokefree Women Facebook page during the time of data collection. In Phase 1, social network visualizations and centrality measures were used to evaluate network structure and engagement. In Phase 2, an inductive, thematic qualitative content analysis was conducted with a subsample of 500 individuals, and correlational analysis was used to determine how participant engagement was associated with self-reported session length. RESULTS: Between February 2013 and March 2014, there were 875 posts and 4088 comments from approximately 4243 participants. Social network visualizations revealed the moderator’s role in keeping the community together and distributing the most active participants. Correlation analyses suggest that engagement in the network was significantly inversely associated with cessation status (Spearman correlation coefficient = −0.14, P=.03, N=243). The content analysis of 1698 posts from 500 randomly selected participants identified the most frequent interactions in the community as providing support (43%, n=721) and announcing number of days smoke free (41%, n=689). CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the importance of the moderator for network engagement and provide helpful insights into the patterns and types of interactions participants are engaging in. This study adds knowledge of how the social network of a smoking cessation community behaves within the confines of a Facebook group. |
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spelling | pubmed-49874902016-08-29 Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page Cole-Lewis, Heather Perotte, Adler Galica, Kasia Dreyer, Lindy Griffith, Christopher Schwarz, Mary Yun, Christopher Patrick, Heather Coa, Kisha Augustson, Erik J Med Internet Res Original Paper BACKGROUND: Social media platforms are increasingly being used to support individuals in behavior change attempts, including smoking cessation. Examining the interactions of participants in health-related social media groups can help inform our understanding of how these groups can best be leveraged to facilitate behavior change. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of participation, self-reported smoking cessation length, and interactions within the National Cancer Institutes’ Facebook community for smoking cessation support. METHODS: Our sample consisted of approximately 4243 individuals who interacted (eg, posted, commented) on the public Smokefree Women Facebook page during the time of data collection. In Phase 1, social network visualizations and centrality measures were used to evaluate network structure and engagement. In Phase 2, an inductive, thematic qualitative content analysis was conducted with a subsample of 500 individuals, and correlational analysis was used to determine how participant engagement was associated with self-reported session length. RESULTS: Between February 2013 and March 2014, there were 875 posts and 4088 comments from approximately 4243 participants. Social network visualizations revealed the moderator’s role in keeping the community together and distributing the most active participants. Correlation analyses suggest that engagement in the network was significantly inversely associated with cessation status (Spearman correlation coefficient = −0.14, P=.03, N=243). The content analysis of 1698 posts from 500 randomly selected participants identified the most frequent interactions in the community as providing support (43%, n=721) and announcing number of days smoke free (41%, n=689). CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the importance of the moderator for network engagement and provide helpful insights into the patterns and types of interactions participants are engaging in. This study adds knowledge of how the social network of a smoking cessation community behaves within the confines of a Facebook group. JMIR Publications 2016-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4987490/ /pubmed/27485315 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5574 Text en ©Heather Cole-Lewis, Adler Perotte, Kasia Galica, Lindy Dreyer, Christopher Griffith, Mary Schwarz, Christopher Yun, Heather Patrick, Kisha Coa, Erik Augustson. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 02.08.2016. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Cole-Lewis, Heather Perotte, Adler Galica, Kasia Dreyer, Lindy Griffith, Christopher Schwarz, Mary Yun, Christopher Patrick, Heather Coa, Kisha Augustson, Erik Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page |
title | Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page |
title_full | Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page |
title_fullStr | Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page |
title_full_unstemmed | Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page |
title_short | Social Network Behavior and Engagement Within a Smoking Cessation Facebook Page |
title_sort | social network behavior and engagement within a smoking cessation facebook page |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987490/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27485315 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5574 |
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