Project success of blogs TB: HEALTH
UK Alan Cole 25/09/2014
MSF study highlights the potential of blogs to support patients undergoing difficult treatments
Relief charity study shows how blogging has played a crucial role in the maintenance of TB patients and health professionals.
A cooperation project of the pioneer Blogs discloses the potential health benefits of social media interaction for the patient difficult treatments.
"I can be an inspiration" - a role for social media in support of patients receiving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the potential of the media highlights social support for patients receiving treatment (XDR -TB) drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (MDR).
The design of the blog allows patients and health professionals to interact and share thoughts and ideas had shown a positive impact of MSF, adding strength and voice of the patient.
Qualitative research, published in the journal PLoS ONE, examined the patient and employee health blogging experiences participating in a co-TB & ME for patients, the treatment of TB and XDR-TB worldwide.
Current treatment of multidrug-resistant TB can take up to two years and has a low cure rate, in part due to their terrible side effects that are difficult to medication adherence. The treatment can often taking more than 20 tablets per day for 24 months, but the support of the membership remains an essential element for healing, says MSF.
The participants of the study showed that blogging MSF looks to help patients continue their treatment. The online audience takes bloggers promoted by his followers. I have nothing negative were from study participants mentioned involved in blogging projects.
Blogging has provided support for the patient, including peer support, exchange of experiences and allow patients to overcome their isolation.
"While I was overwhelming after a treatment, support the blog," said Phumeza Tsilie, tuberculosis and bloggers and survivors of XDR-TB ME. "It was a roller coaster for me, there was always the possibility that the drugs stop working, but blog readers have always favorable. On one of my blogs, a reader wrote me a poem means a lot."
The blog is also beneficial for the health professionals who feel a higher level of connection and communication with the patient through their blogs.
"The idea that I gained by reading blogs patients gave me a link to the patient that would never be possible in our hospitals" not allowed, said Charles Ssonko, MSF TB doctor "restrictions. Term and fear the presence of the physician usually , this kind of open and honest expression of feeling. "
The draft global cooperation encourages bloggers about their experiences of living with MDR-TB and the treatment they receive to write. MSF says that more research on the role of social media in the treatment of MDR-TB would be useful, and whether it might be advantageous in other areas of health.
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