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Social Media Interventions for Patients and Public: Opportunities and Challenges for the Urology Community

Abstract
Interactive interventions represent a new application of social media in urology that involves multidirectional communication within a group. Such interventions have the potential to influence health behaviours in patients and the public and result in a significant impact on urological diseases.
Nikita R Bhatt,1  Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh,2  Esther Garcia Rojo,3  Vineet Gauhar,4  Claudia Mercader,5  Vito Cucchiara,6  Carla Bezuidenhout,7  Eamonn Rogers,8  Maria J Ribal,5  Gianluca Giannarini;9  European Association of Urology Guidelines Office Dissemination Committee and European Association of Urology Patient Office
  1. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK.
  2. S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
  3. Department of Urology, HM Hospitales and ROC Clinic, Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain.
  4. Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore.
  5. Uro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  6. Department of Urology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Division of Experimental Oncology, Urological Research Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
  7. European Association of Urology Guidelines Office, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
  8. Department of Urology, University College Hospital Galway, Galway, Ireland.
  9. Urology Unit, Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital, Udine, Italy.
Source: Bhatt NR; Teoh JY; Rojo EG; Gauhar V; Mercader C; Cucchiara V; Bezuidenhout C; Rogers E; Ribal MJ; Giannarini G; (August 25, 2025) Social Media Interventions for Patients and Public: Opportunities and Challenges for the Urology Community, European Urology.