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Table 3.

Study design and social media sites used in all studies reviewed

Primary study	Study design	Utilization of social media			Social media sites studied
Primary study	Study design	Recruitment	Crowd-sourcing	Intervention	Social media sites studied
Wallner et al. [18]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Instagram TikTok
Nerini et al. [45]	Experimental design with control group			X	Instagram
Bater et al. [33]	Randomized controlled trial			X	Does not mention specific site
Nayyar et al. [26]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Facebook Twitter (X) Instagram YouTube SnapChat Pinterest Tumblr
Chen et al. [27]	Cross-sectional sampling	X			Facebook Instagram Reddit
Zargaran et al. [28]	Focus group mixed methods qualitative and quantitative analysis	X			Facebook Twitter (X) LinkedIn
Walker et al. [34]	Cross-sectional sampling	X		X	Instagram
Kinney et al. [29]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Facebook Twitter (X) Instagram YouTube RealSelf
Sorice et al. [37]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Facebook Twitter (X) Instagram YouTube SnapChat Pinterest
Sonmez et al. [41]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Did not specify
Gesto et al. [42]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Instagram
Alhujayri et al. [39]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Facebook Twitter (X) Instagram
Alhusaini et al. [40]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Twitter (X) SnapChat WhatsApp Telegram
Alkhathami et al. [43]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Instagram SnapChat TikTok
Seekis and Barker [44]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Facebook Instagram SnapChat TikTok
Ateq et al. [46]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Twitter (X) WhatsApp Telegram LinkedIn
Dengre et al. [25]	Retrospective analysis of quality assurance surveys and interview data		X	X	Facebook Instagram SnapChat
de Vries et al [24]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Hyves.nl
Almajnoni et al. [30]	Cross-sectional sampling	X			Did not mention specific site
Sindi et al. [31]	Cross-sectional sampling	X			Did not mention specific site
Hermans et al. [36]	Cross-sectional sampling		X		Facebook Twitter (X) Instagram YouTube TikTok
Sayegh et al. [32]	Cross-sectional sampling	X			Twitter (X) WhatsApp Telegram
Tirrell et al. [23]	Retrospective analysis of social media posts			X	Instagram
Ben-Naftali et al. [19]	Prospective analysis of social media posts			X	Facebook Instagram YouTube
Mullens et al. [20]	Prospective, cross-sectional sampling			X	Instagram Twitter (X)
Timberlake et al. [38]	Cross-sectional Sampling		X		Facebook
Egan et al. [21]	Cross-sectional sampling		X	X	Facebook
Çınar et al. [22]	Prospective, cross-sectional sampling			X	Facebook

X: refers to the affirmation that this method was used in the paper

Declarations

Author contributions

AB: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. BJ: Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. VM and AK: Methodology, Supervision. AO: Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

Not applicable.

Consent to participate

Not Applicable.

Consent to publication

Not Applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The primary data for this systematic review were sourced online from databases listed in the methods. Referenced articles are accessible on PubMed, Embase, and Ovid. Additional supporting data are available from the corresponding author upon request.

Funding

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