Investigating relationships among cancer survivors' engagement in an online support community, social support perceptions, well-being, and moderating effects of existing (offline) social support
| Autor: | Kristi Richardson, Deborah Driscoll, Kenneth M. Portier, Tenbroeck Smith, Elizabeth A. Fallon, J. Lee Westmaas, Bennett McDonald |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Information needs Interpersonal communication 03 medical and health sciences Social support 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Cancer Survivors Perception Surveys and Questionnaires Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Cancer survivor business.industry Nursing research Social Support social sciences Middle Aged humanities Cross-Sectional Studies Oncology Social Perception 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Well-being Quality of Life Female business human activities Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. 28(8) |
| ISSN: | 1433-7339 |
| Popis: | Socially supportive relationships help cancer survivors cope with their diagnosis and may improve quality of life; however, many survivors report unmet support and information needs. Online communities of survivors may address these needs, but research on their benefits have been equivocal. This cross-sectional, self-report study investigated relationships among cancer survivors’ level of engagement in an online survivor community (The American Cancer Society Cancer Survivors Network®; CSN), perceptions of emotional/informational support available from online communities (“online social support”), well-being, and moderating effects of “offline social support.” Participants were 1255 registered users of the CSN who completed surveys between 2013 and 2014. Three types of engagement with the CSN—social/communal, interpersonal communication, and informational/search engagement—were identified through principal components analysis. Regression analyses examined hypotheses. More frequent social/communal and interpersonal communication engagement were associated with increased online social support (p |
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