Factors affecting online health community participation behavior in patients with thyroid cancer.
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Anxiety
/ diagnosis
Asian People
/ statistics & numerical data
Carcinoma, Papillary
/ diagnosis
Community Participation
/ statistics & numerical data
Depression
/ diagnosis
Female
Health Surveys
/ methods
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Quality of Life
Republic of Korea
Thyroid Neoplasms
/ diagnosis
Young Adult
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
16
10
2019
accepted:
08
06
2020
entrez:
25
6
2020
pubmed:
25
6
2020
medline:
8
9
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Globally, cancer patients obtain much of their disease information online. Online health communities allow patients to share questions and information about diseases. However, there have been few studies on the factors affecting online health community participation behavior in cancer patients. Online social networking is associated with mental health problems, and patients with thyroid cancer experience high levels of distress, anxiety and depression. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with use of online health communities by patients with thyroid cancer to understand the characteristics of patients participating in such online communities. A questionnaire survey was completed by 114 thyroid cancer patients admitted for surgery at a general hospital in Seoul, Korea. General characteristics, clinical characteristics, attitude toward cancer, distress, and anxiety and depression scores of patients who joined an online health community (user group) and patients who did not (non-user group) were compared. The factors affecting online health community participation were education (p = 0.049), tumor size (p = 0.010), attitude toward cancer (p = 0.022), and anxiety and depression (p = 0.021). The average score of satisfaction with the online health community was 4.25 of 5. The user group had larger tumors, a high awareness of the risk of thyroid cancer, and high levels of anxiety and depression. Patients who actively used the online health community have relatively larger cancer size and had higher levels of mental stress. As such patients are often very anxious and depend heavily on the gathered information, the quality of this information is important. Healthcare professionals need to develop appropriate interventions for patients participating in the online health community.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32579575
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235056
pii: PONE-D-19-28872
pmc: PMC7313971
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0235056Commentaires et corrections
Type : ErratumIn
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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