Background The Internet is one of the main resources of health information especially for
young adults, but website content is not always trustworthy or validated. Little is known about …

Patients are interested in secure electronic communication with their health-care providers,
but physicians have been slow to adopt the technique into their practice. We have therefore …

Aim of the study to explore the information sources used by women during pregnancy to
meet their information needs regarding pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. Design …

OBJECTIVE: Social support has a positive influence on women's childbearing experience
and is shown to be a preventive factor in postpartum depression. This study examined the …

Studies of online health information seeking are beginning to address a basic question: why
do people turn to the Internet? This study draws upon the Uses and Gratifications (U&G) and …

Internet use among pregnant women is common and frequent, while attendance at childbirth
education classes appears to be on the decline. This article explores why women turn to the …

Objective To qualitatively evaluate the content of communication in Facebook communities
dedicated to preterm infants. Design The 25 largest public English-language Facebook …

Background: In recent years, people with mental health problems are increasingly using
online social networks to receive social support. For example, in online depression …

OBJECTIVE: to report findings on midwives' use of the Internet drawn from a larger study that
explored midwives' attitudes and experiences to online and computer-based learning …

Background This study aimed to investigate the percentage of the needs and expectations of
pregnant women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) about the best sources of …