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Qualitative
Patients used the internet to transform their cancer experiences
Ziebland S, Chapple A, Dumelow C, et al. How the internet affects patients’ experience of cancer: a qualitative study. BMJ 2004;328:564.
Q How do men and women with cancer talk about using the internet?
Key Words: neoplasms • Internet
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Qualitative study using interviews collected for the DIPEx charity (www.dipex.org), which runs a website based on video, audio, and written clips from hundreds of interviews with patients.
UK.
Using maximum variation sampling, 175 men and women 18–83 years of age who had been diagnosed with prostate, testicular, breast, cervical, or bowel cancer in the previous 10 years were recruited at different stages of disease through general practitioners, hospital consultants, support groups, and word of mouth.
Individual narrative interviews were usually done in the respondents’ homes. Participants were asked to tell their own stories from the time they began to suspect they had a problem. The interviewer then used a set of semistructured questions to explore how and why information and support was accessed. Interviews were read and coded using both anticipated and emergent themes and analysed using constant comparison. Negative cases were sought and discussed.
55 respondents directly
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and
Texas Womans’ University
Houston, Texas, USA
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