Table 6.
Comparison of the characteristics of the top 100 posts by group type.
| Types of posts | Groups |
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P valuea | |||||||
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Layperson | Medical | Technical |
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| Categories, n |
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Education and information sharing | 55 | 60 | 1 | .48 | ||||||
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News | 31 | 10 | 0 | <.001 | |||||
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Academic | 4 | 21 | 0 | <.001 | |||||
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Question | 11 | 14 | 1 | .52 | |||||
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Personal experience | 5 | 7 | 0 | .55 | |||||
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Resource | 1 | 8 | 0 | .02 | |||||
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Movement-based advocacy | 3 | 0 | 0 | .08 | |||||
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Supply and equipment | 3 | 17 | 99b | <.001 | ||||||
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Idea sharing | 1 | 11 | 72 | .003 | |||||
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Request for resources (demand) | 2 | 2 | 9 | .99 | |||||
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Offer to provide resources (supply) | 0 | 1 | 7 | .32 | |||||
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Networking | 0 | 2 | 11 | .16 | |||||
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Opinion | 13 | 20 | 0 | .18 | ||||||
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Professional | 0 | 18 | 0 | <.001 | |||||
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Layperson | 12 | 1 | 0 | .002 | |||||
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Conspiracy theory | 1 | 1 | 0 | .99 | |||||
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Humor and motivation | 29 | 3 | 0 | <.001 | ||||||
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Humor | 21 | 0 | 0 | <.001 | |||||
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Support for health care workers | 4 | 2 | 0 | .41 | |||||
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Inspiration | 4 | 0 | 0 | .04 | |||||
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Mental health visibility | 0 | 1 | 0 | .32 | |||||
| Evidence-based, n | .10 | ||||||||||
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Yes | 28 | 39 | 42 |
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No | 72 | 61 | 58 |
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| Crowdsourced, n | .003 | ||||||||||
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Yes | 19 | 38 | 42 |
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No | 81 | 62 | 58 |
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| Poster self-identified, n | <.001 | ||||||||||
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Yes | 1 | 91 | 12 |
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No | 99 | 9 | 88 |
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aP values for differences between layperson and medical groups.
bP<.001 on comparing between layperson and medical groups.