Receiving social support online: implications for health education.

By M. White, S. Dorman. Health Education Research, 2001

673 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. J. V. van Gemert-Pijnen
2. Hans C. Ossebaard
3. M. de Choudhury
4. Sushovan De
5. Saskia M. Kelders
6. Md. Romael Haque
7. Sabirat Rubya

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. de Choudhury
2. Adam S. Miner
3. Tim Althoff
4. Glen A. Coppersmith

Citations in the corpus

• Mental Health Discourse on reddit: Self-Disclosure, Social Support, and Anonymity (2014, background): “Literature on online support groups notes that they are popular sources of information and support for many internet users (White & Dorman, 2001).”
• Towards Facilitating Empathic Conversations in Online Mental Health Support: A Reinforcement Learning Approach (2021, background): “These platforms might help improve access to mental health support as mental health care remains a global challenge with widespread shortages of workforce [41], limited in-person treatment options, and other barriers like stigma [61].”
• Persuasive System Design Does Matter: A Systematic Review of Adherence to Web-Based Interventions (2012, background): “Social support is widely recognized as an important strategy in behavior change [42, 43] and it might be disappointing to see that, on average, only 1.”
• A Computational Approach to Understanding Empathy Expressed in Text-Based Mental Health Support (2020, background): “Facing limited in-person treatment options and other barriers like stigma (White and Dorman, 2001), millions of people Figure 1: Our framework of empathic conversations contains three empathy communication mechanisms – Emotional Reactions , Interpretations , and Explo-rations .”
• Social support in an Internet weight loss community (2009, neutral): “Potential advantages of online support include access to many peers with the same health concerns, convenient communication spanning geographic distances, and anonymity (if desired) for discussion of sensitive issues [16,17].”