Why go online when you have pain? A qualitative analysis of teenagers' use of the Internet for pain management advice.
Background Adolescents are routinely recognized as native to online technologies. However, we know from previous research that this familiarity does not often translate into its use for help-seeking around health. We designed this study to examine the experience of adolescents in using the Internet...
| Publicado en: | Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 572 - 580 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2014
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