Posted by OddipusRex on January 19, 2003, at 22:10:13
And if you have what other groups did you use for comparison? Are you planning to publish the details somewhere? Or perhaps just share them with us?
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/community/abstracts-conf2002.html#B7
Session B7:
Online Peer Support Groups in Mental Health
Robert Hsiung, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, U.S.In online peer support groups, patients from different areas within a country -- or even from different countries -- work together to support and educate each other. Some groups are facilitated by mental health professionals, others by laypeople, others not at all.
In this session, three facilitated online peer support groups in mental health are examined. The different groups are visited, and samples of interactions at each are presented. The groups are then systematically compared in terms of activity level (overall, by topic, and by user), types of communication (questions vs. information vs. opinions vs. suggestions), and technical features (for example, the ability to search archives). Finally, group policies (regarding, for example, what types of messages are allowed and how the privacy of users is protected) are contrasted.
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