Facebook as an arena for peer support?-Knowledge exchange and normative illness narratives about stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Experiencing a stroke disrupts the expected life course and can negatively impact cognitive, emotional, and physical functioning, making it a major source of disability globally. To support recovery, individuals can seek help by sharing their experiences in peer-to-peer support communities.

Objective

The objective of this study was to use discourse analysis to examine how members of a peer-to-peer online support community for stroke survivors construct their understanding of the condition and use narratives to reconstruct their identity into different subject positions.

Methods

The study context was a private Swedish peer-to-peer online support community created and administered by middle-aged people with lived experience of stroke. Data was collected throu

SUBMITTER: Hultman L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12420960 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature