Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'13 (London, UK)
Monday, September 23, 2013 to Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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Attended Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)
Thursday, November 13, 2014 to Friday, November 14, 2014
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'13 (London, UK)

Hashtag Your Way to Health? The Use of Hashtags to Create Healthy Communities and Spread Health Behavior on Twitter
Sherry Pagoto*, Martinus Evans*, Matthew Whited, Michael Bauman, Theodore A Vickey, Kristin L Schneider

Background. Online social networks may have potential to spread health behavior and innovations given that two-thirds of internet users visit them regularly. The term “peer-to-peer healthcare” was recently coined to capture how patients are using the internet to search for others with similar health concerns. Health-related hashtags have appeared on Twitter and seem to be used to connect with people on a health-related issue, engage in a health behavior, and disseminate health messages. T...

Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)

Proof of Concept for a Twitter-Based Weight Loss Intervention
Sherry Pagoto*, Kristin L. Schneider, Rashelle Hayes, Martinus Evans, Jonathan Scully, Molly Waring, Bradley Appelhans, Stephenie C. Lemon

Background. Lifestyle interventions have been proven efficacious in multiple large clinical trials but have not been widely adopted in clinical and community settings because by requiring multiple visits over 1-2 years they are expensive and have high patient and provider burden. An online social network may be a less expensive, lower burden intervention modality for weight loss intervention. Online social networks can potentially reduce visit frequency, provider time, patient burden, and cos...

Full Paper Publications

JMIR Research Protocols

Twitter-Delivered Behavioral Weight-Loss Interventions: A Pilot Series
Sherry L Pagoto, Molly E Waring, Kristin L Schneider, Jessica L Oleski, Effie Olendzki, Rashelle B Hayes, Bradley M Appelhans, Matthew C Whited, Andrew M Busch, Stephenie C Lemon
JMIR Res Protoc 2015;4(4):e123

Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Through Social Media: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Sherry L Pagoto, Katie Baker, Julia Griffith, Jessica L Oleski, Ashley Palumbo, Barbara J Walkosz, Joel Hillhouse, Kimberly L Henry, David B Buller
JMIR Res Protoc 2016;5(4):e228

Journal of Medical Internet Research

An Observational Study of Social and Emotional Support in Smoking Cessation Twitter Accounts: Content Analysis of Tweets
Mary Rocheleau, Rajani Shankar Sadasivam, Kate Baquis, Hannah Stahl, Rebecca L Kinney, Sherry L Pagoto, Thomas K Houston
J Med Internet Res 2015;17(1):e18

Access to Care and Use of the Internet to Search for Health Information: Results From the US National Health Interview Survey
Daniel J Amante, Timothy P Hogan, Sherry L Pagoto, Thomas M English, Kate L Lapane
J Med Internet Res 2015;17(4):e106

Adapting Behavioral Interventions for Social Media Delivery
Sherry Pagoto, Molly E Waring, Christine N May, Eric Y Ding, Werner H Kunz, Rashelle Hayes, Jessica L Oleski
J Med Internet Res 2016;18(1):e24

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