Comparison of social support content within online communities for high-and low-survival-rate cancers

CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 461-467

  Buis, Lorraine R ^a   Whitten, Pamela ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Internet; Online community; Social support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; NEOPLASMS; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80052478623     PISSN: 15382931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCN.0b013e318214093b     Document Type: Article

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