Facebook Experiences of Users With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Think-Aloud Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A critical gap in our knowledge about social media is whether we can alleviate accessibility barriers and challenges for individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), to improve their social participation and health. To do this, we need real-time information about these barriers and challenges, to design appropriate aids.

Objective

The aim of this study was to characterize the ways people with TBI accessed and used social media websites and understand unique challenges they faced.

Methods

We invited 8 adults with moderate to severe TBI to log onto their own Facebook page and use it as they regularly would while thinking aloud. Their comments were recorded and transcribed for qualitative analysis. We first analyzed participants' utterances using a priori co

SUBMITTER: Ahmadi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9804090 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature