An observational study of social and emotional support in smoking cessation twitter accounts: Content analysis of tweets

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e18-

  Rocheleau, Mary ^a   Sadasivam, Rajani Shankar ^a,b   Baquis, Kate ^a   Stahl, Hannah ^a   Kinney, Rebecca L ^a   Pagoto, Sherry L ^a   Houston, Thomas K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA eHealth QUERI and CHOIR   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Smoking cessation; Social network; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84922294158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3768     Document Type: Article

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