Informational and emotional elements in online support groups: a Bayesian approach to large-scale content analysis.

Objective: This research examines the extent to which informational and emotional elements are employed in online support forums for 14 purposively sampled chronic medical conditions and the factors that influence whether posts are of a more informational or emotional nature.Methods: Large-scale qua...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 508 - 514
Autores principales: Deetjen, Ulrike, Powell, John A.
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA May2016
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