Table 4.
Facebook pages by health condition and content—General Support, Patient Support, and Information/Awareness.
| Google Insights ranking | Health condition | Clean pages, n |
General support, n (%) |
Patient support, n (%) |
Information, n (%) |
| 1 | cancer | 32 | 6 (18.8) | 3 (9.4) | 8 (25.0) |
| 2 | diabetes | 37 | 1 (2.7) | 6 (16.2) | 15 (40.5) |
| 3 | stomach | 25 | 4 (16.0) | 1 (4.0) | 7 (28.0) |
| 4 | herpes | 28 | 1 (3.6) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (14.3) |
| 5 | back pain | 34 | 0 (0.0) | 3 (8.8) | 11 (32.4) |
| 6 | human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) | 8 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (50.0) |
| 7 | blood pressure | 37 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.7) | 10 (27.0) |
| 8 | thyroid | 43 | 0 (0.0) | 5 (11.6) | 11 (25.6) |
| 9 | breast cancer | 31 | 1 (3.2) | 6 (19.4) | 7 (22.6) |
| 10 | arthritis | 36 | 1 (2.8) | 6 (16.7) | 3 (8.3) |
| 11 | acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) | 38 | 3 (7.9) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (7.9) |
| 12 | lupus | 30 | 1 (3.3) | 10 (33.3) | 5 (16.7) |
| 13 | diarrhea | 19 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (5.3) |
| 14 | pneumonia | 36 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (5.6) |
| 15 | spine | 14 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (42.9) |
| 16 | flu symptoms | 5 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| 17 | human papillomavirus (HPV) | 14 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (14.3) |
| 18 | asthma | 25 | 1 (4.0) | 2 (8.0) | 7 (28.0) |
| 19 | anemia | 24 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (8.3) | 2 (8.3) |
| 20 | stroke | 6 | 0 (0.0) | 4 (66.7) | 0 (0.0) |
| Total | 522 | 19 (3.6) | 49 (9.4) | 108 (20.7) | |