Past research suggests that perceived social support from parents, teachers, and peers are all positively associated with wellbeing during adolescence. However, little longitudinal research has examined the implications of distinctive combinations of social support for developing adolescents. To address this limitation, we measured multiple dimensions of social support, psychological ill-health...

Background: Individuals living with HIV navigate the health implications of HIV and HIV discrimination. This study aimed to examine changes in internalized stigma and avoidant coping among African American adults living with HIV and serious mental illness (SMI) following a peer-led intervention. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 16 patients were recruited using convenience sampling f...

Healthcare innovation has enabled patients to take a more central role in the management of their disease conditions. The innovative trend has not precluded the central role of primary care givers and experts yet. However, the increasing prominence of social media (SM), such as the Twitter microblogging platform has ensured that a parallel path has been created for people to seek for health-rel...

The goal of the current study is to examine the relationship amongst social support, stress, and depressive symptoms within a transactional and diathesis-stress framework using a multi-wave, longitudinal design. At the initial assessment, adolescents (n = 258) completed self-report measures assessing social support (peer, classmate, parent, and total), dependent interpersonal stress, anxious sy...

Online health community (OHC) has become a hot research topic in the IS filed. A lot of previous studies have focused on online patient support groups or peer-to-peer (P2P) communities, but another kind of OHC, i.e., patient-to-doctor (P2D) communities, is still with less attention. P2D communities link patients and physicians, which have sprung up and developed exponentially all over the world...