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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Online support"”.
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Understanding Empathy in Online Support Forums
Empathy is a powerful psychological tool for supporting people in both therapeutic and daily settings. With the growing demand for peer support in online communities, particularly within mental health and social support forums, understanding how empathy is communicated through text has become …
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Expanded Behavioral Model for Online Support Services
The rapid expansion of online technologies and health resources has created opportunities to develop broadly available interventions to address the needs of the modern patient. This study proposes a theoretical structure based on Andersen's Individual Determinants of Health Service Utilization …
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Online Support Groups: Extending Communities of Concern
Using survey data from 75 participants in computer self-help groups, variables were identified which theoretically indicate that computer self- help groups function similarly to face-to-face self-help groups. This exploratory research provided demographic information which allows users of computer …
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Online Support for Intentional, Teacher Community of Practice
… many types of instructional settings that support more constructivist or social learning settings. This study differentiates CoP from other learning communities with greater discipline in defining CoP, as characterized by sustained self-organization for example. Such a CoP sits quite apart …
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The Leadership Role in Online Support Programs for Beginning Teachers
… learning opportunities foster a wide array for online mentoring, program administrators are in need of research supporting the successful development and management of such efforts. This qualitative research examined the leadership perspectives, skills, and strategies involved in developing and …
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The Leadership Role in Online Support Programs for Beginning Teachers
… learning opportunities foster a wide array for online mentoring, program administrators are in need of research supporting the successful development and management of such efforts. This qualitative research examined the leadership perspectives, skills, and strategies involved in developing and …
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Online support and domestic violence : negotiating discourses, emotions, and actions
… makes an original contribution to the study of online support on domestic violence (often referred to as online support communities/groups) through a discursive feminist perspective. Whilst the few previous studies on the topic are limited in scope, this is the first to adopt a mixed methods …
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Analysis of an Online Support Group for Women with Breast Cancer
… by breast cancer survivors participating in an online breast cancer support group, and to assess the relationship between symptom distress, emotional well-being and benefit finding using baseline assessment measures. Qualitative content analysis and computerized text analysis were used to …
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Use of Online Support Groups by Parents of Students with Special Needs
… purpose of this study is to analyze the use of online support groups by parents of students with special needs. The study addresses the reasons that parents seek to join these online support groups and the information they expect to acquire within them. The reviewed literature focuses on aspects …
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Studying online support communities: Investigating network patterns and characteristics of social support
… research investigating social interactions in online communities is becoming more and more important. However, the multi-faceted approaches of existing studies for the analysis of online communities make it difficult to combine the findings into a comprehensive understanding. This shows the …
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Use of an Enhanced Engagement Approach to Increase Engagement in an Online Support Group
<p>Online support groups (OSGs) are potentially useful resources for individuals with chronic health problems who often face challenges in receiving desired support from similar others. Barriers such as limited mobility, time, distance, and desire for anonymity limit access to this support in …
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Social Comparison And Information Seeking: College Students' Sexual Health Information Management In The Context Of Online Support Groups
… with regards to sexual health information in online support groups. More specifically, this dissertation examines the cognitive procedures related to how active information seekers utilize user-created messages shared in online support groups to manage their uncertainty about sexual health, …
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Logging in strained, logging out sustained: the utility of online support groups for caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancer
… both the process and content of four separate online support groups run through CancerChatCanada, with a national sample of caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancers. A grounded theory analysis of the chat transcripts led to the generation of the core category, ""Logging In …
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Psychosocial Effect of a Year Round Mentoring & Online Support Program for Adolescents With Physical Disabilities Attending a Residential Medical Camp
… area by testing a year-round mentoring and online support program created as a follow-on booster to a residential medical specialty camp for adolescents with physical disabilities. Youth are assigned an adult mentor with a similar physical disability for one-year post camp and are also …
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Klippel-Feil Syndrome: A study of parents' experiences of diagnosis, health service use, and online support in a rare disease population
… experience of diagnosis, health service use, and online support for parents who have a child diagnosed with Klippel-Feil Syndrome. The survey drew questions from the EurordisCare 2 and 3 surveys. A total of 15 parents participated in the study; parents were recruited from a closed online Facebook …
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Just a “Click” away from evidence-based online breast cancer information, advice and support provided by a specialist nurse: An ethnonetnographic study
… burden on the health care system and the supporters of the person diagnosed with this disease. While there are many government and non-government organisations that provide treatment and support services for the person with breast cancer, these services are usually provided in person …
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Reliability and Validity of the Outcome Questionnaire in a Heterogeneous Cancer Population
… were recruited nationwide to participate in an online support group (N=187) and randomly assigned to a treatment or wait-list condition in a longitudinal randomized controlled trial. The OQ Total Score demonstrated excellent reliability (ïƒ¡ï€ = 0.92). However, the subscales varied in the …
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An Online Adaptive Machine Learning Framework for Autonomous Fault Detection
… the artificial immune system (AIS) paradigm and Online Support Vector Machines (OSVM). Together, these algorithms create the Artificial Immune System augemented Online Support Vector Machine (AISOSVM).</p> <p>The AISOSVM framework combines the strengths of the AIS and OSVM to create a fault …
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Expanding the Phenotype of SETD5-related Disorder through a Facebook Support Group
… and describe the experiences of using an online support group. Fifty-one members of a Facebook group specific to individuals and family members affected by <em>SETD5-</em>related disorder were surveyed about medical features, disorder-related challenges, and utility of the Facebook group …
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Improving treatment engagement in people with eating disorders: utilising digital approaches.
… the factors that might influence engagement with online support tools. An initial systematic review indicated that brief motivational interventions were acceptable for addressing low motivation to change and engagement issues, with online interventions highlighted as a viable delivery method. …
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