Online Depression Communities as a Complementary Approach to Improving the Attitudes of Patients With Depression Toward Medication Adherence: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of adherence to prescribed medication is common among patients with depression in China, posing serious challenges to the health care system. Online health communities have been found to be effective in enhancing patient compliance. However, empirical evidence supporting this effect in the context of depression treatment is absent, and the influence of online health community content on patients' attitudes toward medication adherence is also underexplored.

Objective

This study aims to explore whether online depression communities (ODCs) can help ameliorate the problem of poor medication taking among patients with depression. Drawing on the stimulus-organism-response and feelings-as-information theories, we established a research model to examine the influence

SUBMITTER: Chen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11615551 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature