ArticleNetwork modeling and analysis in health informatics and bioinformatics2014
Towards Evaluating and Enhancing the Reach of Online Health Forums for Smoking Cessation.
Article in Network modeling and analysis in health informatics and bioinformatics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- From Help-Seekers to Influential Users: A Systematic Review of Participation Styles in Online Health Communities.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Pooled it
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- Ill Literates or Illiterates? Investigating the eHealth Literacy of Users of Online Health Communities.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Article
- Engagement as a Driver of Growth of Online Health Forums: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Observational
- A globally networked hybrid approach to public health capacity training for maternal health professionals in low and middle income countries.Global health research and policy · 2017Article
- Tobacco Control at Community Colleges: Context and Opportunities.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2016Article
- Development and Implementation of Culturally Tailored Offline Mobile Health Surveys.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2016Article
- Employing the Gini coefficient to measure participation inequality in treatment-focused Digital Health Social Networks.Network modeling and analysis in health informatics and bioinformatics · 2016Article
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Abstract
Online pro-health social networks facilitating smoking cessation through web-assisted interventions have flourished in the past decade. In order to properly evaluate and increase the impact of this form of treatment on society, one needs to understand and be able to quantify its reach, as defined within the widely-adopted RE-AIM framework. In the online communication context, user engagement is an integral component of reach. This paper quantitatively studies the effect of engagement on the users of the Alt.Support.Stop-Smoking forum that served the needs of an online smoking cessation community for more than ten years. The paper then demonstrates how online service evaluation and planning by social network analysts can be applied towards strategic interventions targeting increased user engagement in online health forums. To this end, the challenges and opportunities are identified in the development of thread recommendation systems using core-users as a strategic resource for effective and efficient spread of healthy behaviors, in particular smoking cessation.
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