Internet and social media usage of orthopaedic patients: A questionnaire-based survey

Table 6 The comparison of the participants’ asking an orthopaedist his/her opinion and applying the information they obtained according to their occupations

	Occupations										P
	Unemployed - Housewife		Officer		Worker		Manager-Qualified		Other
	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)
Participants who asked an orthopaedist his/her opinion about a disease
Yes	349	30.8	26	32.5	97	28.4	123	48.2	52	65	10.001b
No	784	69.2	54	67.5	245	71.6	132	51.8	28	35
Which one(s) of the following do you prefer to ask an orthopaedist his/her opinion?
Facebook
Yes	59	16.9	3	11.5	24	24.7	14	11.4	3	5.8	20.018a
No	290	83.1	23	88.5	73	75.3	109	88.6	49	94.2
Twitter
Yes	12	3.4	1	3.8	4	4.1	8	6.5	2	3.8	20.645
No	337	96.6	25	96.2	93	95.9	115	93.5	50	96.2
Physician’s personal website
Yes	76	21.8	9	34.6	17	17.5	32	26	15	28.8	10.236
No	273	78.2	17	65.4	80	82.5	91	74	37	71.2
Websites allowing asking physicians questions
Yes	177	50.7	13	50	35	36.1	62	50.4	28	53.8	10.113
No	172	49.3	13	50	62	63.9	61	49.6	24	46.2
With which one(s) of the following can you describe the answers you were given?
I became more confused
Yes	67	19.2	5	19.2	11	11.3	9	7.3	10	19.2	20.012a
No	282	80.8	21	80.8	86	88.7	114	92.7	42	80.8
Helpful
Yes	150	43	12	46.2	42	43.3	79	64.2	31	59.6	10.001b
No	199	57	14	53.8	55	56.7	44	35.8	21	40.4
Participants who attempted to treat their orthopaedic diseases based on the information they obtained from the internet
Yes	193	17	19	23.8	86	25.1	58	22.7	12	15	10.005b
No	940	83	61	76.3	256	74.9	197	77.3	68	85

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01.

¹Pearson χ² test;

²Fisher Freeman Halton test.