✋ Where do teens and young adults go to talk about sex, sexual health, and sexually transmitted diseases? MedTwitter
)' STD subreddit , which does regular online question-and-answer sessions on sexual health and STDs among a community of 23,000 active users.In 2019, a group of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, did a small study to find out if people were getting medical diagnoses on social media platforms. They chose STDs as a case study, in part because these infections were getting more common.
Ayers says the main takeaway is that many doctors have a"field of dreams" perspective,"you know, if we build it, they will come. But they're not coming, so why don't we go and help them where they already are?" "One of the things to think about is that an approach like the subreddit adds to the false narrative that STDs in particular have to be symptomatic to be problematic, which we know is not the case," explains Dennis Li, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and sexual and gender minority health and well-being, at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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