Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic relapsing disorders, including
Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), which affects an increasing number of …

Background Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) affects the quality of life. Patient education
and support needs are crucial components of comprehensive chronic illness care. The main …

Individuals with autoimmune diseases face a multiplicity of adverse disruptions throughout
their lives that can span physical, emotional, social, and financial contexts. We employed the …

Purpose Drawing on the taxonomy of patient empowerment and a sense of community
(SoC), the purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that impact the intention of the …

Background Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are remitting and relapsing diseases that
mainly interest the gastrointestinal tract. IBD is associated with a condition of psycho-social …

Abstract Background Health Information-Seeking Behaviour (HISB) is necessary for self-
management and medical decision-making among patients with inflammatory bowel …

Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) imposes a huge burden on the healthcare
systems and greatly declines the patient's quality of life. However, there is a paucity of …

The affordances of social media, have significantly transformed how patients seek and
process health information online, including those with chronic diseases like irritable bowel …

Social support groups provide both a space for knowledge management and a means to
connect with others by developing face‐to‐face and online communities. This chapter …

Online support groups exist for a multitude of health conditions. Group participants tend to
have unmet needs for emotional or psychological support, socialization, information, or …