Gender, cancer experience and internet use: A comparative keyword analysis of interviews and online cancer support groups
Gender, cancer experience and internet use: A comparative keyword analysis of interviews and online cancer support groups
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.016
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发表时间：
2006-05-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Charteris-Black, Jonathan
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作者：
Seale, Clive;Ziebland, Sue;Charteris-Black, Jonathan
一种新的方法，比较关键字分析，是用来比较语言的男性和女性癌症患者在97个研究访谈和两个流行的互联网为基础的支持团体的癌症患者。该方法适用于大型文本之间差异的定性和定量分析，替代了定性材料主题分析中使用的“编码和检索”方法。网络论坛是关于疾病经历和性别差异的丰富数据来源。性别表现的显著差异是显而易见的。这些差异遵循在其他情况下建立的语言和其他行为模式（如社会网络差异）。患有前列腺癌的男性在研究采访中表示，他们更有可能在互联网上寻求信息;患有乳腺癌的女性更有可能寻求社会和情感支持。男性关注的是治疗信息。医务人员和程序。他们的疾病经历更多地局限于身体的特定区域，而妇女的经历则更全面。女性论坛的帖子更多地侧重于情感支持的交流，包括关注疾病对其他广泛人群的影响。女性使用最高级和表达感情的词语表明她们具有更强的情感表达能力。网络论坛是加强男子知识收集活动的平台。网络论坛，虽然实际上相当公开可见。两性在主观上似乎都认为这是一个相对私密的地方，用来交换私密的个人信息。乳腺癌论坛的“隐私”促进了其他研究中发现的女性友谊群体的互动。(c)2005爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
A new method, comparative keyword analysis, is used to compare the language of men and women with cancer in 97 research interviews and two popular internet based support groups for people with cancer. The method is suited to the conjoint qualitative and quantitative analysis of differences between large bodies of text, in alternative to the 'code and retrieval' approach used in much thematic analysis of qualitative materials. Web forums are a rich source of data about illness experience and gender differences. Marked differences in the performance of gender are evident. These differences follow linguistic and other behavioural patterns (such as social network differences) established in other contexts. Men with prostate cancer indicate in research interviews that they are more likely to seek information on the internet; women with breast cancer that they are more likely to seek social and emotional support. Men's concerns cluster around treatment information. medical personnel and procedures. Their experience of disease is more localised on particular areas of the body, while women's experience is more holistic. Women's forum postings orientate much more towards the exchange of emotional support, including concern with the impact of illness on a wide range of other people. Women's use of superlatives as well as words referring to feelings indicate their enactment of greater emotional expressivity. Web forums are platforms for an intensification of men's knowledge gathering activities. Web forums, though actually quite publicly visible. appear to be subjectively experienced by both sexes as relatively private places for the exchange of intimate personal information. The 'privacy' of the breast cancer forum facilitated interactions found in other studies to be characteristic of women's friendship groups. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.