How cancer survivors provide support on cancer-related internet mailing lists

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Meier, Andrea ^a   Lyons, Elizabeth J ^b   Frydman, Gilles ^c   Forlenza, Michael ^d   Rimer, Barbara K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR)   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Internet; Mailing lists; Online communities; Online support groups; Patients; Qualitative research; Survivors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; E-MAIL; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF HELP;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMANS; INTERNET; NEOPLASMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 34249938059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.9.2.e12     Document Type: Article

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