Using computerized text analysis to assess communication within an Italian type 1 diabetes Facebook group

Health Psychology Open

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Troncone, Alda ^a   Cascella, Crescenzo ^a   Chianese, Antonietta ^a   Iafusco, Dario ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Computerized text analysis; Facebook group; Mothers; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998681768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2055102915615338     Document Type: Article

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