Social Media Interventions for Patients and Public: Opportunities and Challenges for the Urology Community

Nikita R Bhatt; Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh; Esther Garcia Rojo; Vineet Gauhar; Claudia Mercader; Vito Cucchiara; Carla Bezuidenhout; Eamonn Rogers; Maria J Ribal; Gianluca Giannarini; European Association of Urology Guidelines Office Dissemination Committee and the European Association of Urology Patient Office

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2023.08.003

Social Media Interventions for Patients and Public: Opportunities and Challenges for the Urology Community

Eur Urol. 2023 Dec;84(6):523-526. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2023.08.003. Epub 2023 Aug 25.

Affiliations

¹ Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
² S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³ Department of Urology, HM Hospitales and ROC Clinic, Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore.
⁵ Uro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Department of Urology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Division of Experimental Oncology, Urological Research Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
⁷ European Association of Urology Guidelines Office, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
⁸ Department of Urology, University College Hospital Galway, Galway, Ireland.
⁹ Urology Unit, Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital, Udine, Italy.

PMID: 37635044
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2023.08.003

Abstract

Interactive interventions represent a new application of social media in urology that involves multidirectional communication within a group. Such interventions have the potential to influence health behaviours in patients and the public and result in a significant impact on urological diseases.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Communication
Humans
Social Media*
Urologic Diseases*
Urology*