Towards evaluating and enhancing the reach of online health forums for smoking cessation

Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stearns, Michael ^a   Nambiar, Siddhartha ^a   Nikolaev, Alexander ^a   Semenov, Alexander ^b   McIntos, Scott ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Engagement; Intervention modeling; Online forum communication; RE AIM framework; Reach; Smoking cessation; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

HEALTH;

ENGAGEMENT; INTERVENTION MODELS; ONLINE FORUMS; REACH; SMOKING CESSATIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA PROCESSING; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 85048773482     PISSN: 21926662     EISSN: 21926670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13721-014-0069-7     Document Type: Article

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