Cultural differences in use of an electronic discussion group
Cultural differences in use of an electronic discussion group
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DOI：
10.1177/1359105303008001447
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Gustafson, D
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作者：
McTavish, FM;Pingree, S;Gustafson, D
本文描述了121名新诊断为乳腺癌的妇女如何使用计算机介导的讨论组来科普她们的诊断。这些数据是一项随机临床试验的更大数据集的一部分，该试验评估了一种名为CHESS（综合健康增强支持系统）的基于计算机的系统对健康结果的影响。更大规模的研究发现，实验组（接受CHESS的人）的健康结果有显着改善，特别是有色人种女性。由于讨论组是迄今为止使用最频繁的国际象棋服务，人们可能会得出结论，这些好处（无论是整体还是对有色人种女性更大）应归因于讨论组的使用量。这项研究着眼于有色人种女性和白人女性在研究期间如何使用国际象棋讨论组。对讨论组中信息的内容分析表明，有色人种女性使用讨论组的方式与白人女性不同，她们使用的频率较低，但她们的信息更多地集中在乳腺癌上，这表明她们更多地使用讨论组。
This article describes how 121 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer used a computer mediated discussion group to cope with their diagnosis. These data are part of a larger data set from a randomized clinical trial assessing the impact of a computer-based system called CHESS (the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System) on health outcomes. The larger study found significant improvement in health outcomes for those in the experimental group (those receiving CHESS), especially for women of color. Since discussion group is by far the most heavily used service of CHESS, one might conclude that these benefits (both overall and greater for women of color) should be attributed to amount of discussion group use. This study looks at how women of color and Caucasian women used the CHESS discussion group over the period of the study. Content analysis of messages in the discussion group showed that women of color used the discussion group differently from Caucasian women-they used it less frequently but their messages were more focused on breast cancer, suggesting they used discussion group more instrumentally.