Understanding how adolescents and young adults with cancer talk about needs in online and face-to-face support groups

Charee M. Thompson; Brittani Crook; Brad Love; Catherine Fiona Macpherson; Rebecca Johnson

doi:10.1177/1359105315581515

Understanding how adolescents and young adults with cancer talk about needs in online and face-to-face support groups

Charee M. Thompson, Brittani Crook, Brad Love, Catherine Fiona Macpherson, Rebecca Johnson

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We compared adolescent and young adult cancer patient and survivor language between mediated and face-to-face support communities in order to understand how the use of certain words frame conversations about family, friends, health, work, achievement, and leisure. We analyzed transcripts from an online discussion board (N = 360) and face-to-face support group (N = 569) for adolescent and young adults using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, a word-based computerized text analysis software that counts the frequency of words and word stems. There were significant differences between the online and face-to-face support groups in terms of content (e.g. friends, health) and style words (e.g. verb tense, negative emotion, and cognitive process).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2636-2646
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Health Psychology
Volume	21
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105315581515
State	Published - Nov 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Internet
adolescents
cancer
social support
verbal communication

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Applied Psychology

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