[Students-l] Fwd: Air-L Digest, Vol 128, Issue 2

[Michel Menou]

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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:01:33 +0000 (UTC)
From: Liz Sillence <lizsillence at yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: [Air-L] PhD opportunity at Northumbria University UK - social
	media and wellbeing
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Understandingthe role of social media in improving health and wellbeing (HLS/DRFPYC7P/61975) (closing date 31.3.15)
Find A PhD Project: Understanding the role of social media in improving health and wellbeing (HLS/DRFPYC7P/61975) at Northumbria University

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The Internet is well established as a major source of health information, but both the source and the nature of e-health content is changing rapidly. Patients are increasingly the first source of information and advice for other patients in a new peer-to-peer process in which patients are turning to others like themselves for advice and support and where detailed patient experiences (PEx) are offered online and used to inform health decisions (Sillence & Mo, 2014, Sillence 2010, 2013). In addition patients are increasingly ?life logging? - tracking and monitoring information about their own health, for example, objective data on weight, blood pressure and treatment response, alongside subjective reports of mood and anxiety. Whilst some sites encourage people to share this information (see for example Patients Like Me) little is known about the ways in which people combine all this information and use it to better understand their own condition and importantly make decisions a
  bout their health and wellbeing.
  
  Using a mixed method approach and different patient groups (segmented around, type and stage of disease, level of active management, age and gender) this programme of research aims to understand how the gathering, tracking and exchanging of information and experiences via mobile applications and social media influences health decision making. The project will explore the following questions:
  
  ? How are different sources of information (self-collected, GP provided and peer-to-peer) integrated over the longer term and how does this impact upon decision making?
  ? How does increased awareness and monitoring of health variables affect peoples? attitudes towards their health condition and sense of wellbeing?
  ? Finally, given the choice agenda within the NHS - ?no decision about me without me?, how do people want to be able to share, view and monitor their health as a way of enhancing their input to the decision making process.
  
  Enquiries regarding this studentship should be made to: Dr Elizabeth Sillence, elizabeth.sillence at northumbria.ac.uk or Tel: 0191 243 7246
  




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