Favorite online places of expression for pharmaceutical drug users 2019

In France, Internet and social media channels are often used by pharmaceutical drug users or patients in order to talk about medicinal content. Over the period studied, 52.3 percent of the respondents posted on Twitter, followed by forums (27.5 percent) and Facebook (13.5 percent). Most messages that were studied by the source, related to drugs and treatments and less about pharmaceutical brands and laboratories.

Where do patients and pharmaceutical drug users express themselves on the Internet?*

Characteristic	Distribution of online posts by channels
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Release date

September 2019

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Region

France

Survey time period

March 1 to July 31, 2019

Number of respondents

388,250**

Supplementary notes

* The question was phrased by the source as follows: "Où s'expriment les patients et consommateurs de médicaments ?".

** The source adds the following information: In addition to the 388,205 recorded online messages about health issues (on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Forums, opinion websites), 36 laboratories and 223 pharmaceutical brands were studied.

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