Thursday, February 18, 2021

The Role of the Mamas Facing Forward Facebook Group in the Chronic Illness Community

In their open-ended answers, many participants spoke about not wanting to feel isolated or alone, and shared how they wanted to be connected to real people going through similar experiences. We linked this desire for emotional support with the idea of community. While only 10 women chose emotional support as their primary motivation for joining the group, more than three quarters of the women included at least one answer that we thought discussed community.  
Mariah Leach

 
This article is based on a presentation I gave at the virtual American College of Rheumatology Annual meeting on November 8, 2020. This article shares some of the conclusions we've drawn from the open-ended answers of our survey.
 

The Role of the Mamas Facing Forward Facebook Group in the Chronic Illness Community

Mamas Facing Forward

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