Social support in an Internet weight loss community
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Measuring social support for weight loss in an internet weight loss community.
Although overweight and obese individuals are turning to Internet communities for social support for weight loss, there is no validated online instrument for measuring the subjective social support experiences of participants in these communities. The authors' objective was to determine whether an online version of a validated paper questionnaire, the Weight Management Support Inventory, is app...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Medical Informatics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1386-5056
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.10.003