Research on online support groups
Communication in health-related online social support groups/communities: a review of research on predictors of participation, applications of social support theory, and health outcomes
... Future research on online support groups/communities would benefit from attempting to better integrate theories of coping with theories of social ...social support and studies of coping ...
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This study explores the membership life cycle in online support groups for people with
... in online support groups for people with ...previous research on online support groups for people with depression (especially Alexander et ...
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Online support groups: An overlooked resource for patients
... of research is a common theme. (8-10) Research is also biased in what groups it covers, tending to concentrate on groups set up by the researchers or ...face-to-face groups: they bring ...
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Are online support groups always beneficial? A qualitative exploration of the empowering and disempowering processes of participation within HIV/AIDS related online support groups
... within online support groups The majority of members described how searching for information was their primary purpose for accessing an online support group, suggesting that information ...
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Online support groups for head and neck cancer and health-related quality of life.
... get support in more com- fortable ways without feelings of embarrassment regarding their ...no research, to date, on the association between OSGs and HRQoL for people with H&N cancer or on the psychosocial ...
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Exploring the Experiences of Individuals with Head and Neck Cancer Using Online Support Groups
... social support are available within OSGs for H&N ...social support were being sought and offered within these OSGs – for example, informational, emotional, esteem, social network and tangible ...the ...
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Methodological reflections on the use of asynchronous online focus groups in health research
... in online research is less dominant than in face-to-face research; however, little else has been written about ...focus groups and peer-led online support groups ...
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Accessing dental anxiety online support groups: An exploratory qualitative study of motives and experiences
... and support from the ...about online support groups such as Dental Fear ...reading online support groups when I started considering returning to the ...of research ...
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Sober social networks: the role of online support groups in recovery from alcohol addiction
... the online recovery ...social support and guidance that enable them to manage the negative effects of self-stigma (Albery & Frings, 2016; Best et ...prior research on student identities and ...
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Patterns of engagement with inflammatory bowel disease online support groups: comparing posters and lurkers
... less research that has explored the impact of online support group participation on the experience of living with Inflammatory Bowel ...IBD online support ...The groups also ...
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Insulin restriction, medicalisation and the Internet:A corpus assisted study of diabulimia discourse in online support groups
... diabetes support groups analysed ...Future research should therefore endeavour to explore the discourses on which health professionals draw to communicate about ...of research that points to ...
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Findings and Ethical Considerations From a Thematic Analysis of Threads Within Tinnitus Online Support Groups
... in online support groups for people with tinnitus have yet to be studied but would be of value for many ...whether online support groups are acceptable and of value to people ...
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Gender accommodation in online cancer support groups
... of research on gender differences in Internet use was on barriers to access that, in the early days of the Internet, significantly disadvantaged ...USA), research interest has shifted to gender differences ...
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Online Boundary Work in Stigmatized Groups: The Case of Support Groups for Israeli Childless Women
... both online forums were conducted in Israel between June and August 2014 in three ways: face-to-face, phone, and ...explored online boundary ...addressed online boundary work. Online boundary ...
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Building Online Platforms for Peer Support Groups as a Persuasive Behavioural Change Technique
... the research settings and full analysis of the data collected can be found in ...peer groups were selected so that different levels of addiction are included in the same group, ...two groups, where ...
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COPE.er Method: Combating Digital Addiction via Online Peer Support Groups
... for online platforms that host peer groups and enable interventions to combat problematic behaviours associated with the use of ...Our research studied the case of the social network as a ...
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Online Peer Support Groups to Combat Digital Addiction: User Acceptance and Rejection Factors
... of online usage and enabling indi- viduals to stay in control of ...is Online Peer Groups platforms, towards allowing people to form a group and provide peer support to control and regulate ...
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Characteristics and benefits of Online Support Groups.
... community Online users are not taking the necessary steps to protect their ...these online lists are obviously not reading these welcome messages or are reading them but not taking them ...
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Online Stress Management Support Groups for Social Workers
... Inventing new models of social support groups: A feasibility study of an online stress management support group for social workers. Offering social support via the Inter[r] ...
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Online counseling and support groups for people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS
... HIV/AIDS online counselling and support groups was ...providing online counselling and support groups to those affected by or living with ...on online HIV/AIDS ...
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