Table 3.
Relevant Facebook pages.
| Google Insights ranking | Health condition | Pages sampled | Relevant, n (%) |
Eliminated non-US, n (%)a |
Clean pagesb, n (%)c |
| 1 | cancer | 50 | 49 (98.0) | 17 (34.7) | 32 (64.0) |
| 2 | diabetes | 50 | 50 (100.0) | 13 (26.0) | 37 (74.0) |
| 3 | stomach | 50 | 26 (52.0) | 1 (3.9) | 25 (50.0) |
| 4 | herpes | 50 | 33 (66.0) | 5 (15.2) | 28 (56.0) |
| 5 | back pain | 50 | 44 (88.0) | 10 (22.7) | 34 (68.0) |
| 6 | human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) | 50 | 10 (20.0) | 2 (20.0) | 8 (16.0) |
| 7 | blood pressure | 50 | 43 (86.0) | 6 (14.0) | 37 (74.0) |
| 8 | thyroid | 50 | 49 (98.0) | 6 (12.2) | 43 (86.0) |
| 9 | breast cancer | 50 | 50 (100.0) | 19 (38.0) | 31 (62.0) |
| 10 | arthritis | 50 | 49 (98.0) | 13 (26.5) | 36 (72.0) |
| 11 | acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) | 50 | 43 (86.0) | 5 (11.6) | 38 (76.0) |
| 12 | lupus | 50 | 37 (74.0) | 7 (18.9) | 30 (60.0) |
| 13 | diarrhea | 50 | 23 (46.0) | 4 (17.4) | 19 (38.0) |
| 14 | pneumonia | 50 | 39 (78.0) | 3 (7.7) | 36 (72.0) |
| 15 | spine | 50 | 18 (36.0) | 4 (22.2) | 14 (28.0) |
| 16 | flu symptoms | 5 | 5 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (100.0) |
| 17 | human papillomavirus (HPV) | 50 | 23 (46.0) | 9 (39.1) | 14 (28.0) |
| 18 | asthma | 50 | 41 (82.0) | 16 (39.0) | 25 (50.0) |
| 19 | anemia | 48 | 31 (64.6) | 7 (22.6) | 24 (50.0) |
| 20 | stroke | 50 | 10 (20.0) | 4 (40.0) | 6 (12.0) |
| Totals | 953 | 673 (70.6) | 151 (22.4) | 522 (54.8) | |
aPercent of health condition relevant pages.
bMean number of pages=26; median number of pages=29; interquartile range=18.25.
cPercent of pages sampled.