Professional and Ethical Challenges of Social Media Usage in Providing Healthcare Services During the Period of 19 Covid Pandemics;

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Evaluating the Effect of Social Media Usage in Providing Healthcare Services During the Period of 19 Covid Pandemics

Treatments: Other: quesionnair

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04351568

2020A20

Details and patient eligibility

About

integrating social media into medicine has obvious potential to improve patient care and trust in the profession, in part by meeting patients "where they are," i.e., online, at the same time carries a greater risk in terms of legal, ethical, and professional aspects. Therefore, physicians and medical students using social media should pay attention to the ethical sensitivity in their relationships with patients .it also raises a number of ethical issues including protecting patient and physician privacy; setting appropriate online boundaries; and delineating personal and professional identities among others during covid 19 pandemics

Enrollment: 874 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. adult aged 18 years to 60 years
2. medical personel graduated from egyptian faculty of medicine.
3. non medical personel live in egypt

Exclusion criteria

1. personel less than 18 years old .
2. medical personel not graduated from egyptian faculty of medicine.
3. non medical personel live outside egypt

Trial design

874 participants in 2 patient groups

medical personel

Treatment:

Other: quesionnair

non medical personel

Treatment:

Other: quesionnair