Tweet for behavior change: Using social media for the dissemination of public health messages
- Submitting institution
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Sheffield Hallam University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 3664
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.2196/publichealth.6313
- Title of journal
- JMIR public health and surveillance
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- First page
- e14
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2369-2960
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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10
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- An output of care-in-the-sun feasibility study - first of its kind to investigate the use of social media for framing different types of public health messages in Northern Ireland – £250,000 Medical Research Council funded Public Health Intervention Development Scheme (PHIND Oct 2014 MR/M026299/1). It promoted an awareness about the risks of skin cancer from exposure to direct ultraviolet light from the sun within the region and subsequently contributed to a methods paper on strategies and ethics for adopting social media research for public health https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304249
(Hunter, R. F. et al., American Journal of Public Health, 2018)
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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