Are virtual communities good for our health?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Online health communities influence people's health behaviors in the context of COVID-19.PloS one · 2023
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2. Sharing intention of electronic health records in online health communities: Patients' behavioral decisions in the context of privacy protection measures.Frontiers in psychology · 2022
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3. Demographic and Indication-Specific Characteristics Have Limited Association With Social Network Engagement: Evidence From 24,954 Members of Four Health Care Support Groups.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017
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4. Analysis of patient organizations' needs and ICT use--The APTIC project in Spain to develop an online collaborative social network.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015
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5. Online communities for breast cancer survivors: a review and analysis of their characteristics and levels of use.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2013
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6. Information seeking and social support in online health communities: impact on patients' perceived empathy.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2011
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7. Consumer language, patient language, and thesauri: a review of the literature.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2011
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8. 'Not taken in by media hype': how potential donors, recipients and members of the general public perceive stem cell research.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2009
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9. Cancer information on the Internet.Ecancermedicalscience · 2007
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10. Knowledge transfer & exchange through social networks: building foundations for a community of practice within tobacco control.Implementation science : IS · 2006
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Corrections and comments

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  Accuracy and self correction of information received from an internet breast cancer list: content analysis.2006

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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