English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Online health communities provide a knowledge exchange platform for a widerange of diseases and health conditions. Informational and emotional supporthelps forum participants orient around health issues beyond in-person doctorvisits. So far, little is known about the relation between the level ofparticipation and participants' contributions in online health communities. Togain insights on the issue, we analyzed 456 posts in 56 threads from theDermatology sub-forum of an online health community. While low participationthreads (short threads) revolved around solving an individual's health issuethrough diagnosis suggestions and medical advice, participants in highparticipation threads (long threads) built collective knowledge and a sense ofcommunity, typically discussing chronic and rare conditions that medicalprofessionals were unfamiliar with or could not treat effectively. Our resultssuggest that in short threads an individual's health issue is addressed, whilein long threads, sub-communities about specific rare and chronic diseasesemerge. This has implications for the user interface design of health forums,which could be developed to better support community building elements, even inshort threads.

Different Length, Different Needs: Qualitative Analysis of Threads in Online Health Communities