Online Social Networking by Patients with Diabetes: A Qualitative Evaluation of Communication with Facebook

By J. Greene, N. Choudhry, Elaine Kilabuk, W. Shrank. Journal of general internal medicine, 2011

796 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Pharmacology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6010b273491f381689e5efd856856ecba0f85e05

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In General Health Professions

1. Meredith Ringel Morris
2. Michael J. Paul
3. Mark Dredze
4. M. de Choudhury
5. Ryen W. White
6. Chareen Snelson

In Health

1. M. de Choudhury
2. Mark Dredze
3. Michael J. Paul
4. Emre Kıcıman
5. Glen A. Coppersmith

Citations in the corpus

• You Are What You Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for Public Health (2011, background): “Greene et al. (2010) studied how medical information is exchanged on Facebook, where groups specific to diseases share information, support, and engage patients in their diseases .”
• Qualitative and Mixed Methods Social Media Research (2016, background): “In another study, Greene, Choudhry, Kilabuk, and Shrank (2011) conducted a qualitative evaluation of posts from Facebook communities dedicated to diabetes to reveal how patients, family members, and friends share information and receive emotional support.”
• A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication (2013, background): “An important aspect of using social media for health communication is that it can provide valuable peer, social, and emotional support for the general public [37,43,44,47,48,51,56,73,101,108,114] and patients [28,33,34,44,47,48,56,60,62,68,71,76,88,98,120].”
• Facebook Friends with (Health) Benefits? Exploring Social Network Site Use and Perceptions of Social Support, Stress, and Well-Being (2013, neutral): “…of Facebook use, though the literature to date has suggested Facebook as a promising channel for health promotion 13 and has explored Facebook use by physicians 14 and patients, 15 no extant research has examined the relationship between any Facebook use variable and physical health outcomes.”
• How does social software change knowledge management? Toward a strategic research agenda (2012, background): “Greene et al. (2011) found several Facebook sites for patients with diabetes.”
• Seeking and sharing health information online: comparing search engines and social media (2014, background): “Disease-specific exchanges on social sites can provide new sources of knowledge, support, and engagement, particularly important for patients with chronic conditions [12].”