2003
DOI: 10.1177/1359105303008001446
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Gendered Cybersupport: A Thematic Analysis of Two Online Cancer Support Groups

Abstract: Within the last few years numerous support groups have emerged on the Internet, presenting new opportunities for patients to communicate with health care professionals and other patients. The present study examines discourse within online cancer support groups, increasing our understanding of sex differences in cybersupport. Two reproductive cancer groups were chosen for this investigation, the Ovarian Problems Mailing List (OPML) and the Prostate Problems Mailing List (PPML), making sex of the patient recogni… Show more

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“…100,103,110,116,134 An additional four studies were identified through reference checks and efforts to locate published literature linked to unpublished work identified through the electronic search. 111,112,135,136 An additional two papers (women only), although individually ineligible, were located as 'linked papers' for two of the original 34 studies, 114,120 giving a total of 38 studies (reported in 44 papers), as shown in Figure 8.…”
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“…100,103,110,116,134 An additional four studies were identified through reference checks and efforts to locate published literature linked to unpublished work identified through the electronic search. 111,112,135,136 An additional two papers (women only), although individually ineligible, were located as 'linked papers' for two of the original 34 studies, 114,120 giving a total of 38 studies (reported in 44 papers), as shown in Figure 8.…”
Section: Search Outcomementioning
confidence: 99%
“…103 The majority of cancer studies focused on male sex-specific cancers (prostate n = 14, 100,101,109,111,121,125,128,136,[208][209][210]212,213 testicular n = 2 214,216 ), sometimes including comparisons with female cancers (prostate vs. breast n = 4; 100,122,128,212 prostate vs. ovarian n = 1; 136 testicular vs. breast n = 1). 216 The remaining six cancer papers concerned a mixture of cancer types ('any', n = 4), 113,116,207,217 male breast cancer (n = 1) 99 and a comparison across colorectal cancer in men and women, cancer in male and female Chinese patients, and metastatic cancer in women (n = 1).…”
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