Health information on social media helps mitigate Crohn's disease symptoms and improves patients' clinical course

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Highlights：

• Social media have potential to improve Crohn's disease patients' clinical course.

• Health information on social media offers informational, emotional and peer support.

• The support alters treatment understanding, symptom control, and trust in doctors.

• Patients' interaction with doctors on social media affects health outcomes.

• Health information may function like medical interventions in the clinical course.

摘要

•Social media have potential to improve Crohn's disease patients' clinical course.•Health information on social media offers informational, emotional and peer support.•The support alters treatment understanding, symptom control, and trust in doctors.•Patients' interaction with doctors on social media affects health outcomes.•Health information may function like medical interventions in the clinical course.

论文关键词：Social media,Crohn's disease,Complex chronic disease,Health information processing,Symptom management,Trust in doctor

论文评审过程：Received 12 July 2020, Revised 25 September 2020, Accepted 26 September 2020, Available online 29 September 2020, Version of Record 5 October 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106588