Internet Community Group Participation: Psychosocial Benefits for Women with Breast Cancer

By Shelly Rodgers, Qimei Chen. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2005

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Seeking and sharing health information online: comparing search engines and social media (2014, background): “People afflicted by medical conditions also find support via online health communities (OHCs) [9,30].”
Online Word-of-Mouth (or Mouse): An Exploration of Its Antecedents and Consequences (2006, background): “This is evident in several related studies (e.g., Daugherty, Lee, Gangadharbatla, Kim, & Outhavong, 2005; Rodgers & Chen, 2005).”
Understanding user participation in online communities: A systematic literature review of empirical studies (2015, background): “However, these orientations are not permanent but have been found to change over time and experience (e.g. Rodgers & Chen, 2005).”
To stay or leave?: the relationship of emotional and informational support to commitment in online health support groups (2012, background): “PREDICTING SOCIAL SUPPORT Most previous research on communication in support groups is based on hand-coding relatively small samples of messages [7, 17, 23, 28, 29].”
Building Member Attachment in Online Communities: Applying Theories of Group Identity and Interpersonal Bonds (2012, background): “These are the members most likely to provide the content that others value—answers to others' questions in technical and health support groups (Blanchard and Markus 2004; Rodgers and Chen 2005), code in open source projects (Mockus et al. 2002), and edits in Wikipedia (Kittur et al. 2007).”
Predicting Continued Participation in Newsgroups (2006, background): “The breast cancer group includes women with breast cancer and their caregivers, who exchange information and social support about this life-threatening disease ( Rodgers & Chen, 2005 ).”