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Table 1 Actions taken if respondents found information they believed should not be publicly available

From: Who’s misbehaving? Perceptions of unprofessional social media use by medical students and faculty

Action

Medical students (%) 496 respondents

Faculty (%) 614 respondents

P value*

Deleted people from my “friends” list

176 (35.5)

84 (13.7)

<.001

Deleted comments made by others on my profile

264 (53.2)

88 (14.3)

<.001

Removed my name from photos that were tagged to identify me

319 (64.3)

114 (18.6)

<.001

I have not taken action

68 (13.7)

271 (44.1)

<.001

  1. *P value calculated from Pearson chi-square or Fisher’s exact test if any cell had an expected value < 5