Factors Driving Users’ Engagement in Patient Social Network Systems

Antiretroviral use among active injection-drug users: the role of patient-provider engagement and structural factors.

HIV-seropositive, active injection-drug users (IDUs), compared with other HIV populations, continue to have low rates of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) use, contributing to disparities in their HIV health outcomes. We sought to identify individual-level, interpersonal, and structural factors associated with HAART use among active IDUs to inform comprehensive, contextually tailored...

Patient engagement or social media marketing?

Social Justice in Social-Ecological Systems: Resilience Through Stakeholder Engagement

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Social Network Sites: Users and Uses

Social network sites (SNS) have rapidly become very popular, challenging even the major portals and search engines in terms of usage and commercial value. This chapter introduces key SNS issues and reviews relevant academic research from sociology, communication science, computer science, and information science. The chapter introduces a broad classification of SNS friendship and demonstrates t...

Understanding Users' Satisfaction with Social Learning Network

The social learning network (SLN) constructed based on web 2.0 techniques demonstrates some unique characteristics comparing to traditional e-learning context based on 1.0 technique. In response to the new characteristics in SLN, we advance the theoretical understanding of user satisfaction by reconceptualising e-learning as a relational process among students. Based on that, we draw on network...