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Ethical aspects | Dangers of SM | Excluding physicians | Freedom of choice | Importance of professionalism | Physicians in the digital age | Negative consequences | ||
Factors | Items | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Ethical aspects | It is ethically acceptable for a physician to communicate with a patient through social media as part of his/her care for patients and the patient healthcare process. | .885 | .020 | −.067 | .030 | .008 | .162 | .022 |
It is ethically acceptable for a physician to communicate (e.g. share personal messages) with a patient through personal social media account for easier social interaction. | .870 | .072 | −.080 | .076 | .006 | .136 | .018 | |
Social media have the potential to improve communication between a physician and a patient. | .865 | .100 | −.127 | .024 | .059 | .243 | .021 | |
Communication with a patient through social media can be achieved without compromising physician-patient confidentiality. | .832 | .041 | −.101 | .013 | .012 | .191 | .078 | |
It is ethically acceptable for a physician to visit patient social media profile. | .625 | .086 | −.030 | .122 | −.021 | .108 | .067 | |
Dangers of SM | It is possible that your potential employer will not hire you or invite you for an interview due to information about you found online. | .109 | .838 | −.073 | −.040 | .065 | .101 | −.114 |
There is a possibility that your online behaviour might have an impact on perception of others in your profession. | .037 | .827 | −.049 | −.025 | .185 | .120 | −.177 | |
People can make wrong assumptions about you based solely on the content of your post. | .050 | .821 | −.102 | −.016 | .176 | .105 | −.103 | |
You may lose a position you already hold (as an employee or student) due to information about you found online. | .040 | .773 | .018 | −.051 | .087 | .124 | −.067 | |
Sharing privileged patient information on social media without their consent is deemed to be inadmissible. | .108 | .588 | −.379 | .102 | .166 | .044 | −.028 | |
Excluding physicians | Healthcare professionals should be banned from using social networking software due to too much of a risk. | −.091 | −.140 | .896 | .034 | .076 | .016 | −.131 |
Healthcare professionals should be restricted from using social networking software due to too much of a risk. | −.116 | −.028 | .870 | −.101 | .122 | .108 | −.219 | |
Freedom of choice | I should be able to do whatever I want online. | .074 | −.010 | −.088 | .788 | −.063 | −.040 | −.198 |
The School has no right to interfere in my online activities. | .021 | .023 | −.245 | .733 | −.069 | −.144 | −.324 | |
I believe that my online activities do not affect me as a professional. | .057 | −.057 | .113 | .687 | .168 | .059 | .076 | |
Importance of professionalism | I strongly agree with expectations for professional behaviour and make a conscious effort to comply with them in every aspect of my life. | .012 | .138 | .067 | .044 | .874 | .045 | .012 |
I know well what constitutes professional behaviour and what is expected of me as a current/future professional. | .019 | .151 | −.025 | .139 | .824 | −.059 | −.076 | |
High-level professional behaviour should also be expected of students from the very beginning of their studies. | .000 | .126 | .190 | −.130 | .736 | .221 | .035 | |
Physicians in the digital age | Guiding patients to online information is a new responsibility of physicians in the digital age. | .266 | .058 | .073 | .009 | −.013 | .768 | −.060 |
As a medicine / dental medicine graduate, it is my obligation to keep abreast with the current trends in the use of social media. | .165 | .076 | −.130 | .073 | .088 | .759 | −.153 | |
One of the responsibilities of a teacher is to counsel students on the appropriate use of social media. | .068 | .191 | .181 | −.140 | .090 | .649 | .028 | |
Negative consequences | Professionals cannot actually fully relax. | −.105 | .160 | .145 | .034 | −.005 | .093 | −.831 |
Social media have removed protection of professionals against the public. | −.063 | .097 | .209 | .015 | .088 | .082 | −.798 | |
It is not always possible to maintain professionalism in online activities. | .042 | .072 | .001 | .339 | −.018 | .044 | −.653 | |
Cronbach α coefficients | .877 | .829 | .823 | .601 | .748 | .570 | .680 |