Table 4.

Use of social media within research studies.

Social media use		Study
Observing behaviors (n=77)
	Viewing social media sites/content analysis (n=25)	Moreno MA [16,19-25], Egan KG [26], Griffiths R [27], Ridout B [28], Whitehill JM [29], Jenssen BP [30], Pujazon-Zazik MA [31], Marcus MA [32], Lam CG [33], Clerici CA [34], Gao X [35], Egan KG [36], Stokes CE [37], Villiard H [38], Cash SJ [39], Lefkowitz ES [40], Robertson L [41], Brockman LN [42]
	Assessing social media use via interview or survey (n=46)	Ybarra ML [14,43], Pantic I [44], O’Dea B [45,46], Egan KG [26,47], Moreno MA [48,49], Dunlop SM [50], Wang J [51], Lam CG [33], Clerici CA [34], Nordfeldt S [52,53], Divecha Z [54], Bauermeister JA [55], Stoddard SA [56], Lefkowitz ES [40], Yang CC [57], Jelenchick LA [58], van der Velden M [59], Vyas AN [60], Whiteley LB [61], Veinot TC [62], van Rooij AJ [63], Rice E [64,65], Madan G [66], Woolford SJ [67], Juvonen J [68], Perren S [69], Tucker JS [70], Machold C [71], Gowen K [72], Wolniczak I [73], Campisi J [74], Horgan A [75], Dowdell EB [76], Landry M [77], Li TM [2], Struik LL [78], Black SR [79], Selkie EM [80], Veinot TC [81], Pulman A [82]
	Eliciting reaction to public comments (“posts”) on social media (n=6)	Dunlop SM [50], Robertson L [41], Egan K [47], Litt DM [83], Young SD [84], Jones K [85]
Providing health information (n=13)		Lam CG [33], Clerici CA [34], Nordfeldt S [52,53], D’Alessandro AM [86], Moreno MA [24], Hedge KC [87], Rice E [64], Bull SS [88], Jones K [85], Livingston JD [89], Li TM [2], Lu AS [90]
Engaging a community (n=17)
	Improving communication with HCPs (n=7)	Whitehill JM [29], Nordfeldt S [52,53], Hedge KC [87], Jones K [85], Selkie EM [80], Lu AS [90]
	Creating an online community (n=10)	Rice E [64], Nordfeldt S [52,53], Hedge KC [87], Tichon JG [17], Bull SS [88], Livingston JD [89], Jones K [85], van der Velden M [59], Li TM [2]
Research study recruitment (n=23)		Gunasekaran B [91], Jones L [92], Ramo DE [93], Fenner Y [94], Moreno MA [21-24], Whitehill JM [29], Rice E [64], Stoddard SA [56], Bauermeister JA [55], Gamage DG [95], Lord S [96], Ahmed N [97], Chu JL [98], Kraaij V [99], Ezell JM [100], Brockman LN [42], Jones K [85], Struik LL [78], Black SR [79], Veinot TC [81]