Why People Living With and Beyond Cancer Use the Internet
Why People Living With and Beyond Cancer Use the Internet
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DOI：
10.1177/1534735419829830
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发表时间：
2019-02-10
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Holmes, Michelle Marie
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作者：
Holmes, Michelle Marie
患有癌症和超越癌症的人患有广泛的身体和心理症状。为了应对与癌症相关的挑战，患者使用各种自我管理资源，包括互联网。癌症患者和癌症以外的人使用互联网，通过提供信息，在线社区和支持团体来做出有关自我护理的决定。使用互联网可以增强患者的能力，使他们能够感到他们拥有与医疗保健团队讨论补充和替代治疗方案所需的知识。患者使用互联网是因为它的实用性;然而，也有一些障碍影响癌症患者使用互联网，如缺乏信息技术技能，缺乏计算机访问，以及对信息质量的担忧。卫生保健专业人员需要意识到，互联网上提供的信息在使用补充和替代医学进行自我管理的决策过程中起着重要作用。随着互联网作为自我管理工具的使用不断增长，建议更多地强调医疗保健专业人员讨论互联网在决策过程中所起的作用，以进一步支持他们的患者进行自我管理，以便与癌症一起生活。
People living with and beyond cancer suffer with a wide range of physical and psychological symptoms. To manage the challenges associated with cancer, patients use a variety of self-management resources, including the Internet. People living with and beyond cancer use the Internet to make decisions regarding their self-care, through information provision, online communities, and support groups. Using the Internet may empower patients, enabling them to feel they have the required knowledge to discuss complementary and alternative treatment options with their health care team. Patients use the Internet because of its practicality; however, there are also several barriers affecting patients with cancer using the Internet, such as lack of information technology skills, lack of computer access, and concerns over the quality of information. Health care professionals need to be aware that the information available on the Internet plays a factor in the decision-making processes regarding using complementary and alternative medicine for self-management. With the use of the Internet as a tool for self-management continuing to grow, it is recommended that more emphasis is placed on health care professionals discussing the role the Internet plays in the decision-making process, to further support their patients regarding self-management for living with and beyond cancer.