A total of 296 responses were received. The survey was completed by internet users from 68 different countries. (Fig 1)
Participants declared to be Radiologist (31,7 %), Radiologist in training (37,5 %), Medical Doctor – including other specialty (5,4 %), Radiographer (16,9 %), Medicine students (3,4 %), other (5 %). (Fig 2)
Most of the respondents belong to the age-range class of 18-34 yo (190 – 64,2%), followed by 35-54 yo participants (86 - 29%), and 20 respondents that are >55yo (6,8%). (Fig 3)
Facebook resulted as the social network with the highest number of users between the participants, with 94,6% of the responders declaring to be active users. Instagram and Linkedin registered respectively the 48,6% and 29,4% of active users between responders. Only 77 responders declared to be active Twitter users (26%). Just a few of participants were active users of Figure1 or Weibo. (Fig 4)
No significant differences were recorded in terms of the perceived quality of the radiology content shared on the different social networks (p=0,36). The general mean of the scale evaluation reaches the score of 3,86 (scale 1-5). The majority of the participants considered the radiology material shared on social network as a good resource for radiology learning. (Tab1 – Fig 5)
A huge number of respondents declared to follow radiologic society official accounts on social networks (69%). (Fig 6)
Almost all participants stated the Radiologic-content shared via social-network as helpful in their practice. A total amount of 183 (61,8%) respondents considered the radiology content shared via social networks as “very useful” or “quite useful” in their daily practice. (Fig 7)
33% of users declared they have created radiology-content and 58% shared it. The respondents weren’t extremely worried about the presence or not of references in radiology posts on social networks with a good level of trust. In fact, just 58 users (19,6%) expressed a low level of trust. (Fig 8)
Facebook is considered the preferred social-network (71,3%) for better worldwide interaction among colleagues about radiology professional topics.