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

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

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

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Evaluating the Effect of Social Media Usage in Providing Healthcare Services During the Period of 19 Covid Pandemics
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: quesionnair

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 874

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Assiut, Egypt
    • Recruiting
    • Assiut
    • Contact: Noha E. Ebrahem, MD; Phone Number: + 0201062664072; Email: nohaesmaiel@gmail.com
    • Contact: Doaa M. El Shehaby, MD; Phone Number: + 0201007361718; Email: drdoaamoh@yahoo.com
    • Principal Investigator: Doaa M. El Shehaby, MD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 60 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

medical and non medical personel

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
medical personel	Other: quesionnair; questionnair about Emerging Legal and Ehical Disputes Over Patient Confidentiality
non medical personel	Other: quesionnair; questionnair about Emerging Legal and Ehical Disputes Over Patient Confidentiality

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
to evaluate the effect of social media usage in medical practice during covid 19 epidemic	to evaluate the effect of social media usage in medical practice during covid 19 epidemic	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assiut University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): July 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Anticipated): August 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 14, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 15, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): April 17, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 2, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 1, 2020
• Last Verified: June 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020A20

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No