PMID- 32668652
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20201130
LR  - 20201130
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 14
DP  - 2020 Jul 13
TI  - A Comparative Study of Online Depression Communities in China.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph17145023 [doi]
LID - 5023
AB  - Online communities have become a tool for researchers to understand and help 
      individuals with depression. According to their operation mode in terms of 
      management, communities can be divided into management depression communities 
      (MDCs) and lacking-management depression communities (LDCs). This study aimed to 
      investigate the characteristics and impact of LDCs in comparison with MDCs. All 
      postings from the previous year were collected from the LDC and MDC. Keywords 
      were extracted and coded to identify the themes, and a text classifier was built 
      to identify the type of emotions and social support expressed in the postings. 
      Community members were then clustered to explore their different participation 
      patterns. We found that in the LDC, the expression of negative emotions was the 
      most popular theme, there was a lack of information about the treatment of 
      depression and a lack of social support providers, the level of engagement of 
      providers was low, and support seekers did not receive attention. These results 
      reveal the need for community management and can be used to develop more 
      effective measures to support members of online depression communities.
FAU - Tang, Jingyun
AU  - Tang J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6082-2952
AD  - School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
FAU - Yu, Guang
AU  - Yu G
AD  - School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
FAU - Yao, Xiaoxu
AU  - Yao X
AD  - School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200713
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - *Depression/epidemiology
MH  - Emotions
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Internet
MH  - *Self-Help Groups
MH  - *Social Support
MH  - *Text Messaging
PMC - PMC7400076
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - depression
OT  - negative emotion
OT  - online depression communities
OT  - participation patterns
OT  - social support
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2020/07/17 06:00
MHDA- 2020/12/01 06:00
PMCR- 2020/07/01
CRDT- 2020/07/17 06:00
PHST- 2020/05/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/07/09 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/07/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/07/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/07/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/12/01 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/07/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph17145023 [pii]
AID - ijerph-17-05023 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph17145023 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 13;17(14):5023. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph17145023.