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This paper demonstrates how cancer online support groups can promote patients’ positive emotions, mutual trust, and supportive relationships within a three-dimensional virtual space over five years using a virtual space for cancer patients.
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Why is it important?
We found that positive emotion words and informational/emotional support messages increased in Years 1 through 3 using the virtual support group for cancer patients.
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This page is a summary of: Development of a support group using a virtual space for cancer patients, International Journal of Web Based Communities, January 2014, Inderscience Publishers,
DOI: 10.1504/ijwbc.2014.065394.
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