D3 Artikkeli ammatillisessa konferenssijulkaisussa
Use of Online Health Communities in Smoking Cessation: a Social Support Perspective
Tekijät: Chenglong Li, Hongxiu Li, Reima Suomi
Toimittaja: Dongming Xu, James Jiang, Hee-Woong Kim
Konferenssin vakiintunut nimi: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
Kustannuspaikka: Xi'an, China
Julkaisuvuosi: 2019
Kokoomateoksen nimi: Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
Verkko-osoite: https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2019/146/
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/44856401
Online health communities could be effective interventions for smoking
cessation. This study aims to explore the reason why smokers turn to
online health communities to support their smoking cessation from the
social support perspective. We conducted a qualitative study by
interviewing seven users of an online smoking cessation community in
Finland. Our findings uncover that emotional support, informational
support, and companionship are strong motivators for smokers to use
smoking cessation online communities. Further, informational support and
companionship are found to have different importance for people at
different stages of smoking cessation. The role of companionship also
varies between posters and lurkers of smoking cessation online
community. The findings in this research provide practical guidelines to
smoking cessation online health communities on how to understand
smokers’ needs and retain them to use smoking cessation online health
communities from the social support perspective, aiming to support their
smoking cessation.
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