Identifying Gender-Preferred Communication Styles within Online Cancer Communities: A Retrospective, Longitudinal Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Durant, Kathleen T ^c   McCray, Alexa T ^a,b   Safran, Charles ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Silverlink Communications   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; ONLINE SYSTEM; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS CANCER;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84869116467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049169     Document Type: Article

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