Table 8.

Frequency of Social Media Usage and Its Relationship With Time and Other Characteristics

Patient information		Statistics	Never	Once	Multiple times	Every time	Total	P value
Educational level	No education	N	2	1	1	2	6	.659
		%	0.40%	0.20%	0.20%	0.40%	0.3%
	School (Primary, Secondary, high)	N	109	94	144	79	426
		%	18.20%	21.00%	18.10%	19.60%	19.0%
	University (Bachelor, Master, PhD)	N	487	353	653	323	1816
		%	81.40%	78.80%	80.70%	80.00%	80.8%
Cosmetic contents to “look for” or “wanted to see” on social media	Before-and-after photographs	N	129	138	264	150	681	<.001
		%	21.57%	30.80%	33.08%	37.13%	30.29%
	Information about procedures	N	107	90	134	80	411
		%	17.89%	20.09%	16.79%	19.80%	18.28%
	Videos about procedure	N	47	46	62	29	184
		%	7.86%	10.27%	7.77%	7.18%	8.19%
	Patient testimonials	N	49	40	59	36	184
		%	8.19%	8.93%	7.39%	8.91%	8.19%
	Information about surgeon’s	N	72	49	88	36	245
		%	12.04%	10.94%	11.03%	8.91%	10.90%
	Others	N	194	85	191	73	543
		%	32.44%	18.97%	23.93%	18.07%	24.15%