TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping engagement in twitter-based support networks for adult smoking cessation
AU - Lakon, Cynthia M.
AU - Pechmann, Cornelia
AU - Wang, Cheng
AU - Pan, Li
AU - Delucchi, Kevin
AU - Prochaska, Judith J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 American Public Health Association.
PY - 2016/8
Y1 - 2016/8
N2 - We examined engagement in novel quit-smoking private social support networks on Twitter, January 2012 to April 2014. We mapped communication patterns within 8 networks of adult smokers (n = 160) with network ties defined by participants' tweets over 3 time intervals, and examined tie reciprocity, tie strength, in-degree centrality (popularity), 3-person triangles, 4-person cliques, network density, and abstinence status. On average, more than 50% of ties were reciprocated in most networks and most ties were between abstainers and nonabstainers. Tweets formed into more aggregated patterns especially early in the study. Across networks, 35.00% (7 days after the quit date), 49.38% (30 days), and 46.88% (60 days) abstained from smoking. We demonstrated that abstainers and nonabstainers engaged with one another in dyads and small groups. This study preliminarily suggests potential for Twitter as a platform for adult smoking-cessation interventions.
AB - We examined engagement in novel quit-smoking private social support networks on Twitter, January 2012 to April 2014. We mapped communication patterns within 8 networks of adult smokers (n = 160) with network ties defined by participants' tweets over 3 time intervals, and examined tie reciprocity, tie strength, in-degree centrality (popularity), 3-person triangles, 4-person cliques, network density, and abstinence status. On average, more than 50% of ties were reciprocated in most networks and most ties were between abstainers and nonabstainers. Tweets formed into more aggregated patterns especially early in the study. Across networks, 35.00% (7 days after the quit date), 49.38% (30 days), and 46.88% (60 days) abstained from smoking. We demonstrated that abstainers and nonabstainers engaged with one another in dyads and small groups. This study preliminarily suggests potential for Twitter as a platform for adult smoking-cessation interventions.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303256
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303256
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27310342
AN - SCOPUS:84978209585
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 106
SP - 1374
EP - 1380
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
IS - 8
ER -