Online Support Group Function in Health Communication: ‘‘Böbrekle Hayat Bulanlar’’
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Internet phenomenon has affected
the health area as all the areas of the community. Today, internet is the
leading source that ill people and their families search information and
support. People can easily and directly get information about disease which
they newly heard, owing to internet, can get consultation from experts online
about their illnesses, and can read or watch their advices. If they want to,
they may attend to on the online support groups that people who has the same
disease are getting together, they can
find answers to their questions about their illnesses, can get help from other
ill people and their relatives, where is a dence information exchange and
helping each other and that works with a
emphathetic notion. These online platforms (especially founded by the participants who has the same problems ) give
the opportunity of sharing the physical, psychological and social problems and letting the participants help each other in
solving these kind of problems.
In this research, the answer is being seeked
to the question ‘‘ In the Böbrekle Hayat Bulanlar facebook online support
group; does the usage of the therapeutical factors of the group fulfill the
participants’ physical, social and psychological
needs ?’’ The example group’s serving gradually as an online support
group provides the solution to the needs of the participants that they couldn’t
ensure from their living. The patients who go on living with a chronic disease even though they have had the
transplantation, could find the answer of the questions about the disease that
affect their lives owing to the group and they get useful clues with the
advices of the members who lived these problems and have found solutions.
With the pre-evoluation made about this
research that was made by the blog and forum analysis of the online group’s
comments, the group’s theraeutical effects deeply observed thematically and the
group’s functions are identificated. . The topics that are
observed are: the risk of rejection, getting used to the drugs that have side
effects, the regular control obligation, the risk of infection, the anxieties
about the body image and the deteriaration of the patient’s life quality due to
the physical, psychological and social obstacles.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
22 Aralık 2016
Gönderilme Tarihi
22 Aralık 2016
Kabul Tarihi
29 Kasım 2016
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2016 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 3