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Table 4.

The evaluation of the social media accounts that the participants have and social media tools that they use to communicate with their patients according to the institution where they work.

		Public (n = 220) n (%)	Private (n = 101) n (%)
Social media tools preferred by the participants to communicate with their patients	E-mail	113 (51.4)	70 (69.3)	0.003^a^,^**
	Facebook	49 (22.3)	25 (24.8)	0.624^a
	Twitter	7 (3.2)	2 (2.0)	0.725^c
	WhatsApp	127 (57.7)	73 (72.3)	0.012^a^,^*
	Instagram	11 (5.0)	7 (6.9)	0.662^b
Do you help your patients to manage their treatments over social media	Never	122 (55.5)	34 (33.7)
	Sometimes	91 (41.4)	56 (55.4)	0.019^a^,^*
	Often	7 (3.2)	11 (10.9)
Do you give online information about a disease	Never	79 (35.9)	24 (23.8)
	Sometimes	100 (45.5)	44 (43.6)	0.019^a^,^*
	Often	32 (14.5)	23 (22.8)
	Always	9 (4.1)	10 (9.9)
Do you let your patients view your posts on social media	Yes	69 (31.4)	43 (42.6)
Do you let your patients view your posts on social media	No	151 (68.6)	58 (57.4)	0.050^a^,^*

Pearson Chi-square test.

Yates’ continuity correction.

Fisher exact test.

p < 0.05.

^**

p < 0.01.