Online communities for breast cancer survivors: a review and analysis of their characteristics and levels of useJacqueline L Bender
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Support Care Cancer 21:1253-63. 2013
..Online communities have been heralded as one of the most promising health resources on the Internet. The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics and levels of use of online communities for breast cancer survivors...
Collaborative authoring: a case study of the use of a wiki as a tool to keep systematic reviews up to dateJacqueline L Bender
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, R Fraser Elliott Building, 4th Floor, Toronto General Hospital, 190 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada
Open Med 5:e201-8. 2011
..The purpose of this study was to examine the use of a wiki as an online collaborative tool for the updating of a type of systematic review known as a scoping review...
Can pain be managed through the Internet? A systematic review of randomized controlled trialsJacqueline L Bender
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Pain 152:1740-50. 2011
..More well-designed studies with diverse patient groups, active control conditions, and a better description of withdrawals are needed to strengthen the evidence concerning the impact of Internet-based interventions on people in pain...
Seeking support on facebook: a content analysis of breast cancer groupsJacqueline L Bender
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Med Internet Res 13:e16. 2011
..Social network sites have been growing in popularity across broad segments of Internet users, and are a convenient means to exchange information and support. Research on their use for health-related purposes is limited...
Testicular cancer survivors' supportive care needs and use of online support: a cross-sectional surveyJacqueline L Bender
ELLICSR Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship Centre, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, M5G 2C4, ON, Canada
Support Care Cancer 20:2737-46. 2012
..Likewise, there is limited research on their use of the Internet or social media applications--tools that are popular among young adults and which could be used to address their needs...
What patients with cancer want to know about pain: a qualitative studyJacqueline L Bender
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Onatario, Canada
J Pain Symptom Manage 35:177-87. 2008
..To manage pain adequately, innovative efforts are needed to enable patients and health professionals to recognize, articulate, and answer such questions. Internet-based tools could provide some of these solutions...
Questioning context: a set of interdisciplinary questions for investigating contextual factors affecting health decision makingAndrea Charise
Health Care, Technology and Place CIHR Strategic Training Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Health Expect 14:115-32. 2011
..To combine insights from multiple disciplines into a set of questions that can be used to investigate contextual factors affecting health decision making...
Measuring the impact of a moving target: towards a dynamic framework for evaluating collaborative adaptive interactive technologiesLaura O'Grady
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, 190 Elizabeth St, Toronto M5G2C4, Canada
J Med Internet Res 11:e20. 2009
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Fostering partnerships in survivorship care: report of the 2011 Canadian genitourinary cancers survivorship conferenceJacqueline L Bender
ELLICSR Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Clinical Services Building, BCS021, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
J Cancer Surviv 6:296-304. 2012
..A group of clinicians in collaboration with the Canadian Urologic Association held a forum for GU cancer survivors, advocacy groups, and health professionals to explore ways to collaboratively enhance survivorship care...
Questions that individuals with spinal cord injury have regarding their chronic pain: a qualitative studyCarrie Norman
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Disabil Rehabil 32:114-24. 2010
..To explore the questions that community-dwelling individuals with a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) have regarding their chronic pain and to identify their preferred methods of acquiring this information...