Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 to Thursday, September 4, 2008
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Attended Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)
Thursday, September 17, 2009 to Friday, September 18, 2009
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Attended Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)
Monday, November 29, 2010 to Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Attended Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)
Friday, September 16, 2011 to Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Is registered to attend Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)
Saturday, September 15, 2012 to Sunday, September 16, 2012
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)

Apomediation and Women's Choices of Birth Place and Attendants
Holly Witteman*, Sarah Whyte, Jacqueline Bender*, Michelle Janutka, Erica Sutton, Laura O'grady, Kate Sellen, Morgan Von Tunzelmann, Carolynn Prior, Murray Enkin, Kirstin Borgerson, Nadine Wathen

Background: Many women use online communities to discuss their pregnancies and plans for childbirth. Knowledge shared and created within these groups may shape or reinforce opinions about birth place (home, hospital, birth center) and attendants (midwife, obstetrician, family physician, unassisted birth) within the broader social context of contested birth philosophies. Objective: In this study, we sought to explore the relationship between apomediation in online pregnancy communities and ...

Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)

Breast Cancer Survivors Create Online Communities When They Need Them: a Survey of English Language Online Communities for Breast Cancer
Jackie Bender*, Carolina Jimenez-marroquin*, Alejandro (alex) R. Jadad

Background: An increasing majority of individuals are seeking the "just-in-time someone like me" in online communities to aid in their health decision-making. Most research on online communities has focused on characterizing the use of one or a few communities using a single medium such as bulletin boards. Little attention has focused on characterizing the range of online communities on a particular topic. Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the scope and characteristics ...

Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)

What Is the Role of Online Support for the Supporters? a Multi-Method Study Examining the Use of Online Communities among Breast Cancer Peer Support Providers
Jackie Bender*, Lorraine Ferris, Joel Katz, Alejandro R. Jadad

Background Online communities offer cancer patients a convenient way to obtain supportive care from peers however, little is known about how or why patients use them for this purpose. Cancer peer support providers are in a unique position to provide insight on the role of online communities in relation to other sources of supportive care. This multi-method study aimed to identify the extent, nature and conditions of online community use among breast cancer survivors, known to be peer suppo...

Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

A View of Online Communities Across Stages of Life: Current Research and Future Trends (Panel)
Jackie L. Bender*, Holly O Witteman*, Osman Hassan Ahmed*, Michael Massimi*

Online communities are virtual social spaces where people come together to share information and support, learn and collaborate with others, promote products or particular views, seek entertainment or simply to find company. When they first emerged in the 1980s, they were supported by mailing list and message board software built on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. With the evolution of the participatory web at the turn of the century, online communities now form rapidly around and acr...

Full Paper Publications

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Measuring the Impact of a Moving Target: Towards a Dynamic Framework for Evaluating Collaborative Adaptive Interactive Technologies
Laura O'Grady, Holly Witteman, Jacqueline Bender, Sara Urowitz, David Wiljer, Alejandro Jadad
J Med Internet Res 2009;11(2):e20

Seeking Support on Facebook: A Content Analysis of Breast Cancer Groups
Jacqueline L Bender, Maria-Carolina Jimenez-Marroquin, Alejandro R Jadad
J Med Internet Res 2011;13(1):e16

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