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How Affiliation Disclosure and Control Over User-Generated Comments Affects Consumer Health Knowledge and Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Experiment of Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Social Media

How Affiliation Disclosure and Control Over User-Generated Comments Affects Consumer Health Knowledge and Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Experiment of Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Social Media

Given the amount of people who use the Internet for health information seeking, it is not surprising that pharmaceutical companies have increasingly marketed their drugs through interactive websites and social media [2,3]; this practice is commonly referred to as direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA). Recent estimates indicate that online pharmaceutical DTCA expenditures have continued to increase, while DTCA spending through more traditional broadcast media (eg, TV) has decreased.

David Christopher Christopher DeAndrea, Megan Ashley Vendemia

J Med Internet Res 2016;18(7):e189