Online peer support for mental health problems in the United States: 2004-2010.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Help seeking for online peer and other social support in response to depression and other mental health problems offers an electronic technology alternative to traditional mental health care. Here, with nationally representative samples of adult community residents in the USA, we study online peer support help seeking, estimate its occurrence, and investigate depression and other suspected predictors and correlates, some of which might prove to be causal influences.

Method

The data are from nationally representative probability sample surveys of the non-institutionalized US adult population, with a new independent sample assessed via confidential computerized self-assessment modules each year from 2004 to 2010, yielding estimates about online peer support. A total

SUBMITTER: DeAndrea DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4327823 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature