Title: Impact of sharing health information related to diabetes through the social media network: ontology

Authors: Zainab Ali Al-Qarny; Riyad Alshammari; Muhammad Imran Razzak

Addresses: King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ' King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ' King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abstract: Diabetes is a common problem in the recent time. Many people are exchanging health information through social media networks (e.g., Facebook) to provide a good knowledge and that can help in decision making, change bad users' behaviours and enable better management of the disease. Ontology is used to share structured information among people. In this paper, the proposed ontology can be used to examine the impact of sharing health information related to diabetes through the social media network such as Facebook.

Keywords: diabetes; social media; Facebook; ontology; health information; Arab countries; information sharing; social networks; diabetics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2015.077674

International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 2015 Vol.5 No.3/4, pp.162 - 171

Received: 15 Aug 2015
Accepted: 19 Mar 2016
Published online: 12 Jul 2016 *

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