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ReviewInternational journal of impotence research2024

Using social media for male sexual health: what do we miss? A perspective article on good practices and missing evidence.

Filippo Maria Nimbi, Livio Ricciardi, Roberta Galizia, Vittorio Lingiardi

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Review in International journal of impotence research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Filippo Maria NimbiDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. filippo.nimbi@uniroma1.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4253-5383
Livio RicciardiDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Roberta GaliziaDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Vittorio LingiardiDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social media are popular and play a key role in influencing, informing, and stimulating users in their everyday lives. People (especially adolescents and young adults) increasingly use social media to get and share sexual health-related information. Studies have shown encouraging results on using social media for sexual health communication improving attitudes and behaviors, although the current quality of studies makes them little reliable. In fact, literature shows how research on social media and sexual health communication has many limitations and unexplored areas, especially for male users. What can we do as sexual health professionals to improve in this field? The answer is simple: engage in better communication and do more research, starting from the users' needs. There is the urgency to embrace these new ways of information among professionals in order to improve access to better care. In this perspective article, authors will present and discuss some of the evidence on the use of social media in male sexual health and offer some suggestions on how to communicate better in these platforms.

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Sexual HealthSocial MediaCommunicationHumansMaleSexual Behavior

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PMID38443554
OpenAlexW4392460991

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