Online Health Promotion, Early Identification of Difficulties, and Help Seeking in Young People

Santor, Darcy A.; Poulin, Christiane; LeBlanc, John C.; Kusumakar, Vivek

doi:10.1097/01.chi.0000242247.45915.ee

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“…This support extends to very diverse problems, including sadness and depression, suicide plans, alcohol or drug use, eating disorders, weight loss and obesity, quitting smoking, illnesses, topics related to sex, sexual abuse, educational problems in school, problems with relationships, and other problems falling under the broad concept of ''teen issues.'' [1][2][3] Content analyses of peer support on the Internet have demonstrated, often by using the social-support typology of Cutrona and Suhr, 4 that people who share a certain illness or disability exchange a large amount of information and also support each other emotionally. 5,6 Esteem and network support are also provided, although to a lesser extent.…”

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Peer Counseling in an Online Chat Service: A Content Analysis of Social Support

Fukkink

2011

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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In a recently launched one-on-one chat service for young people with psychosocial problems, young peer volunteers (ages 16-23) have a leading role in the conversations, comparable to the role of counselors in web-based and telephone-based child help-line services. A content analysis of the chat conversations showed that the contribution of the peer counselors in the confidential chat sessions satisfied the various quality criteria of the service. Moreover, the peer counselors offered the young people who visited the site varied types of social support. The variety of types of social support appeared a stronger predictor of the quality ratings than the length of the conversation or the quantity (instead of variety) of social support, which emphasizes the importance of multidimensional social support in online conversations.

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Peer Counseling in an Online Chat Service: A Content Analysis of Social Support

Fukkink

2011

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…Findings from the literature also provide early support for the use of the Internet for mental health promotion in youth in terms of assessment (Santor et al 2007), self-screening, (Donker et al 2009;Ercan et al 2006) mental health literacy (Burns et al 2009;Santor et al 2007;Larue et al 2009), prevention (Calear and Christensen 2010), intervention (Bruning Brown et al 2004;Crutzen and De Nooijer 2011;Fridrici and Lohaus 2009), and as a first point of entry into a mental health care system (Haas et al 2008). Moreover, due to 338 T. Halsall et al the sensitive nature of mental health issues and youth propensity for self-reliance (Rideout 2002;Marcus and Westra 2012), the Internet presents as a powerful resource for health promotion, especially around highly stigmatized health issues (Berger et al 2005;Naylor et al 2009).…”

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mindyourmind: An Overview and Evaluation of a Web-Facilitated Mental Health Program that Applies Empowerment Strategies for Youth

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Garinger²,

Forneris

2014

Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet

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“…12 A majority of adolescents own a mobile phone and 50% are users of short message services (SMSs) (i.e., text messaging). 13 Previous research has shown that 70% of adolescents have used the Internet to obtain health-related information 14,15 and many of them have a positive attitude toward ICT delivered interventions. 16,17 The ease of use and compatibility with adolescent's lifestyle 18 may increase the likelihood of productive behavior change via enhanced adherence.…”

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Evaluation of an Internet–Short Message Service–Based Intervention for Promoting Physical Activity in Hong Kong Chinese Adolescent School Children: A Pilot Study

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Chung

et al. 2012

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Evaluation of acceptability and preliminary efficacy of an Internet and short message service (SMS) intervention for promoting physical activity (PA) in Hong Kong Chinese school children. An 8-week quasi-experimental study non-randomly assigned 78 school children (mean age=12.8 years) to (a) an intervention group that received a stage-matched, Internet PA program two times a week and tailored SMS messages daily; or (b) a no-treatment control. Data were collected from September 2008 until June 2009. Acceptability measures included exposure rate and participant's satisfaction. Efficacy measures were changes in stage of motivational readiness (SMR) and self-reported PA level. Intervention participants demonstrated significant pre-post increments in SMR (Z=-2.558, p=0.011) and self-reported PA level [F(1, 76)=4.50, p=0.04]. There was a non-significant trend between groups in both SMR (p=0.24) and PA (p=0.13). Despite the similar ratings of satisfaction between Internet (M=3.12±0.74) and SMS (M=3.12±0.84), participants displayed distinct patterns of exposure with 66% exhibiting a weekly login rate of 0.5 times/person and an average of 3.75 minutes/visit/person. In contrast, 79% of participants read an average of 1.3 SMS/person/week and 47% voluntarily replied to ∼3.8 SMS/person. These findings demonstrate the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of an Internet-SMS-based intervention for promoting PA in Hong Kong school children. The divergent exposure rates between the Internet and SMS may be a unique pattern for adolescents in early SMR. Future research should be cognizant of the importance of SMR since it may influence utilization and/or adherence.

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Online Health Promotion, Early Identification of Difficulties, and Help Seeking in Young People

Cited by 75 publications

References 19 publications

Peer Counseling in an Online Chat Service: A Content Analysis of Social Support

Peer Counseling in an Online Chat Service: A Content Analysis of Social Support

mindyourmind: An Overview and Evaluation of a Web-Facilitated Mental Health Program that Applies Empowerment Strategies for Youth

Evaluation of an Internet–Short Message Service–Based Intervention for Promoting Physical Activity in Hong Kong Chinese Adolescent School Children: A Pilot Study

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