In one of the first articles of this type I've seen published in a mainstream medical journal, in this case the Archives of Dermatology, there's some evidence that being in an online community helps patients. This study is from our friends at the Partners Center for Connected Health which is run by Joe Kvedar, himself a dermatologist. (No I haven't spoken to Joe about it and I don't know if his specialty is why they picked on psoriasis—other than it’s a very nasty condition).
Anyway, the key take-away from an attitudinal study of over 200 patients in five online communities is that:
Almost half (49.5 percent) of participants perceived improvements in their quality of life and 41 percent perceived improvements in psoriasis severity since joining an online support community.
And all this from a treatment with no costs and no side effects. Even Syd Wolfe — new head of committee member of drug safety at the FDA much to Forbes dismay— (Editor's note: That'll teach us to read Forbes! Goldstein got it right. and yes it is that Sydney Wolfe) would approve!
I expect that as Health 2.0 tactics go mainstream we’ll hear a lot more about these types of cases.
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Just another study in a decade’s worth of research in the literature showing the benefits of online self-help support communities (which significantly pre-date the marketing-hyped Health 2.0 world).
Today’s the world is returning towards natural way of curing due to the harmful effects of today’s chemical & synthetic medicines. People are deeply worried on this issue and also insisting to use natural way of curing to get health & security.
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Response rate was unknown, but what data they could collect, between 12-25%, not ideal. I suspect a strong response bias (n was only 260 in the end), and this is far from a representative sample. I would not draw any big conclusions.
Brad
Correction Matthew: Wolfe is just on the committee as a member, not in charge. Big difference.