Exploring the benefits and challenges of health professionals’ participation in online health communities: Emergence of (dis)empowerment processes and outcomes

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• 作者：Sara Atanasova^a ; ^{sara.atanasova@fdv.uni-lj.si} ; Tanja Kamin^b ; Gregor Petrič^a
• 关键词：Online health community ; Health professionals ; Moderators ; Empowerment ; Thematic analysis
• 刊名：International Journal of Medical Informatics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：98
• 期：Complete
• 页码：13-21
• 全文大小：453 K
• 卷排序：98

文摘

Participation in OHCs brings benefits also to health professionals, not only users. Health professional moderators see themselves as agents of users’ empowerment process/outcomes. Being a health professional moderator can be personally and professionally (dis)empowering. Participation in OHCs can improve the quality of professional-patient interaction.