Testing the Proclaimed Affordances of Online Support Groups in a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults Seeking Mental Health Assistance

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Journal of health communication

• Publication date

  2015-02-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/10810730.2014.914606PMID 25116383
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