This paper presents a systematic review of online health communities (OHCs) published between 2009 and 2020 in the ACM Digital Library. Aiming to consolidate the current issues …
Talk therapy is a common, effective, and desirable form of mental health treatment. Yet, it is inaccessible to many people. Enabling peers to chat online using effective principles of talk …
K O'Leary, A Bhattacharya, SA Munson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Barriers to accessing mental health care leave the majority of people with mental illnesses without professional care. Peer support has been shown to address gaps in care, and could …
Menstruation has long remained a conversational taboo across India, resulting in inadequate dissemination of menstrual health education (MHE). Menstrupedia, a digital …
E Kaziunas, MS Klinkman, MS Ackerman - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present ethnographic account of people's everyday behavioral health experiences in the city of Jackson, Michigan to explore community forms of care work …
We present a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in an informal …
S Chopra, R Zehrung, TA Shanmugam… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that causes hormonal imbalance and infertility in women and people with female reproductive organs. PCOS causes different …
Z Peng, Q Guo, KW Tsang, X Ma - … of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Textual comments from peers with informational and emotional support are beneficial to members of online mental health communities (OMHCs). However, many comments are not …
JL Feuston, AM Piper - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Despite historical precedence and modern prevalence, mental illness and associated disorders are frequently aligned with notions of deviance and, by association, abnormality …