The Influence of Social Media on Health Behavior
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 251
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health education; public health; epidemiology; research methods; obesity prevention; global health
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Interests: developing and evaluating evidence-based (theory-based) health behavior change interventions; health behavior research (HBR); obesity prevention; mental health promotion, especially stress coping; community-based participatory research (CBPR) and evaluation; integrative mind-body-spirit interventions, especially yoga/meditation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use and application of social media platforms have been ubiquitous now for personal and professional use. The application of social media as well as social media-based campaigns for health behavior change has been a complex process (Batra & Sharma, 2023; Ghahramani, de Courten & Prokofieva, 2022).
The purpose of this Special Issue is to generate a body of evidence related to the use and application of social media in influencing behavior change such that healthy behaviors are adopted and maintained in adolescents, young adults, adults, and older adults across the nation and beyond. We are anticipating and open to receiving a wide variety of manuscripts such as theoretical/invited papers, original research articles depicting experimental and non-experimental studies, state-of-the-art reviews (narrative, systematic, and scoping) along with critical essays. Research areas of interest will include, but not be limited to, social media tools for health behavior survey design and implementation, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media in designing and implementing health behavior interventions, innovative application of social media tools and platforms in initiation and sustenance of health behavior among diverse populations.
Prof. Dr. Amar Kanekar
Prof. Dr. Manoj Sharma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- social media
- behavior change
- adolescents
- adults
- interventions
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