论文标题
与健康相关的社会支持的同行建议干预措施：可行性评估
Peer Recommendation Interventions for Health-related Social Support: a Feasibility Assessment
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论文摘要
在线卫生社区（OHCS）提供了与支持同伴建立联系的希望。建立这些连接首先需要查找相关的同行 - 一个可能耗时的过程。同行推荐系统是一种计算方法，可在健康旅程中更轻松地寻找同行。通过鼓励OHC用户更改其在线社交网络，同行建议可以增加可用的支持。但是这些好处是假设的，并且基于混合的观察证据。为了实验评估同伴建议的效果，我们将这些系统概念化为旨在增加特定有益连接行为的健康干预措施。在本文中，我们设计了同行建议干预措施，以增加两种行为：阅读有关同伴经历和与同伴互动。我们通过进行为期12周的现场研究对这项干预进行了最初的可行性评估，其中79名Caringbridge的用户每周通过电子邮件收到同行建议。我们的结果支持对同伴建议的有用性和需求，并提出了评估更大的同伴建议干预措施的好处。我们的贡献包括对OHC的同行建议干预措施的开发和评估的实用指导。
Online health communities (OHCs) offer the promise of connecting with supportive peers. Forming these connections first requires finding relevant peers - a process that can be time-consuming. Peer recommendation systems are a computational approach to make finding peers easier during a health journey. By encouraging OHC users to alter their online social networks, peer recommendations could increase available support. But these benefits are hypothetical and based on mixed, observational evidence. To experimentally evaluate the effect of peer recommendations, we conceptualize these systems as health interventions designed to increase specific beneficial connection behaviors. In this paper, we designed a peer recommendation intervention to increase two behaviors: reading about peer experiences and interacting with peers. We conducted an initial feasibility assessment of this intervention by conducting a 12-week field study in which 79 users of CaringBridge received weekly peer recommendations via email. Our results support the usefulness and demand for peer recommendation and suggest benefits to evaluating larger peer recommendation interventions. Our contributions include practical guidance on the development and evaluation of peer recommendation interventions for OHCs.
