Fostering empowerment in online support groups

By Azy Barak, Meyran Boniel-Nissim, John Suler. Computers in Human Behavior, 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Sharing Health Data for Better Outcomes on PatientsLikeMe (2010, background): “As is consistent with findings about members of other online communities [18], members of the PatientsLikeMe site self-reported that the site improved the psychological experience of living with their conditions.”
Online group psychotherapy: Challenges and possibilities during COVID-19—A practice review. (2020, background): “Barak and Grohol (2011) reviewed and summarized the research in 2011 for online mental health interventions and found that there was strong evidence to support the effective use and future development of a variety of online mental health applications.”
Defining Internet-Supported Therapeutic Interventions (2009, background): “Barak, Boniel-Nissim, and Suler [55] suggest that the lack of demonstrated health and mental health benefits from online support groups is due to their fostering nonspecific components of personal empowerment, such as emotional relief and a sense of control, rather than specific health outcomes.”
The benefits of and constraints to participation in seniors’ online communities (2014, background): “Compared with face-to-face groups, online communities offer several advantages, including accessibility, anonymity, invisibility and status neutralisation, greater individual control over the time and pace of interactions, opportunity for multi-conversing and opportunity for archival search (Barak, ”
Help me, I'm fat! Social support in online weight loss networks (2011, background): “Coulson et al. (2007) observed that there has been a proliferation of health-related information on the Internet.”
Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness (2008, neutral): “…4 - 5, 2008 www.medicine20congress.com predictions phrs web 2.0 science 2.0 networks usability community ehealth mashups second life apomediation XML virtual reality medical informatics facebook empowerment google social networking RSS wikis support groups consumer directed blogs collaboration”