Table 5.
Descriptive characteristics of those tweets referencing adherence in which the user was categorized as a patient, health professional, or health institution. Tweets were further classified as either not mentioning adherence or mentioning it positively or negatively.
Adherence | Patients, n (%) | Health professionals, n (%) | Health institutions, n (%) | Total, n (%) |
No mention | 37 (10.60) | 117 (33.52) | 195 (55.87) | 349 (100) |
Positive | 1 (12.5) | 1 (12.5) | 6 (75) | 8 (100) |
Negative | 15 (78.95) | 4 (21.05) | 0 (0) | 19 (100) |
Total | 53 (14.10) | 122 (32.45) | 201 (53.46) | 376 (100) |