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Online social support as an opportunity

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posted on 2023-05-18, 06:48 authored by Bjornes, CD, Laursen, BS, Delmar, C, Elizabeth CummingsElizabeth Cummings, Nohr, C
Short-stay hospital treatments reduce patients’ opportunity to meet each other and share experiences. Therefore an application for online social support was integrated into a health informatics tool developed to meet the information and communication needs for men with prostate cancer. This paper reports on the men’s experience of using the application for online social support. The findings demonstrate that older Danish men with cancer find it quite natural to communicate with each other using the Internet. However, the study signifies the complexity in designing online social support groups. When designing such applications, it is necessary to consider different types of users, and see these different users’ involvement, and their different stages of user activities, as a central part of the design strategy. Thus, a core element appears to be the need to always see the user involvement as a central part of the design strategy. It is essential to constantly learn more about the users and their needs, to continuously redesign the applications. From that perspective the term Patient 2.0 only illustrates one phase in an on-going evolution of roles between the partners in the healthcare sector as these roles are constantly being influenced by new technologies.

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Publication title

Nordisk Sygeplejeforskning

Volume

5

Pagination

61-74

ISSN

1892-2678

Department/School

School of Nursing

Publisher

Universitetsforlaget AS

Place of publication

Norway

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Copyright 2015 Universitetsforlaget

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  • Restricted

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Nursing

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