美容医疗旅游者对在线支持社区的使用:共享信息、互惠互利和持久关系。

IF 2.6 2区 医学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-16 DOI:10.1177/10497323231219939
Rowena Forsyth, Tushar Prasad
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摘要

美容手术是医疗游客最热衷的手术之一。医疗美容游客在计划行程时会利用许多信息来源,包括在可能的情况下与之前的医疗游客讨论他们的决定。目前有关在线支持社区的研究调查了各种健康状况的患者与在线支持的互动情况;然而,有关医疗美容游客参与在线支持社区的研究却十分有限。在此,我们将报告对澳大利亚美容医疗游客的定性访谈研究结果。我们发现,许多参与者在其本地社交网络中对其接受美容手术和出国旅游的意向感到耻辱。参与在线社区(Facebook 群组)使他们能够从其他美容医疗游客那里获得信息和支持。通过使用社区的公开发帖和信息传递功能,她们在群组中扮演了两个不同的角色,这与她们旅程中的时间转换是平行的:她们是手术前的信息和支持寻求者,也是手术后的信息和支持提供者。他们在提供者的角色中实行互惠,这是因为他们希望 "回报 "手术前从他人那里获得的支持。这种角色是一种集体的、基于社区的互惠,而不是直接的相互交流。一些参与者还将他们的线上关系转变为持久的线下友谊,这表明了线上互动是如何与更广泛的社会网络结合在一起的。
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Cosmetic Medical Tourists' Use of Online Support Communities: Sharing Information, Reciprocity, and Enduring Relationships.

Cosmetic procedures are amongst the most popular procedures sought after by medical tourists. Cosmetic medical tourists utilise numerous sources of information when planning their trips including, where available, discussing their decision with previous medical tourists. Current research on online support communities has investigated the interactions of patients with various health conditions with online support; however, limited research exists on cosmetic medical tourists' participation in online support communities. Here we report findings from our qualitative interview study of Australian cosmetic medical tourists. We found that many of our participants experienced stigma regarding their intention to receive cosmetic procedures and to travel overseas from within their local social networks. Participating in online communities (Facebook groups) enabled them to access information and support from other cosmetic medical tourists. Through using public posting and messaging functionality of the communities, they performed two distinct roles in the groups that parallel the temporal transitions of their journeys: they were information and support seekers pre-surgery and information and support providers post-surgery. The reciprocity they practiced in the provider role occurred due to their desire to 'pay forward' the support they had received from others pre-surgery. This role was performed as a collective, community-based reciprocity rather than a direct mutual exchange. Some participants also transitioned their online relationships into enduing offline friendships demonstrating how online interactions may become enmeshed with broader social networks.

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CiteScore
6.80
自引率
6.20%
发文量
109
期刊介绍: QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH is an international, interdisciplinary, refereed journal for the enhancement of health care and to further the development and understanding of qualitative research methods in health care settings. We welcome manuscripts in the following areas: the description and analysis of the illness experience, health and health-seeking behaviors, the experiences of caregivers, the sociocultural organization of health care, health care policy, and related topics. We also seek critical reviews and commentaries addressing conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues pertaining to qualitative enquiry.
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