On-line support groups have started for women who are sharing their stories of failed labiaplasty.
On-line support groups are becoming increasingly popular and provide large networks of relatively superficial support [ 28].
They reported that support groups for breast cancer were highly-ranked, as measured by prevalence-adjusted indices of overall online support activity, in comparison with other disease-related and cancer-related on-line support groups that were evaluated.
Asian Americans who sought help for suicidal ideation or attempts were more likely than Latinos to use non-professionals, including on-line support groups, self-help groups and hotlines.
For nearly a year, Elisa DeCarlo had been logging on to the Internet daily to type messages to an on-line support group about her battle against alcohol.
The Active Low-Carber Forums (ALCF) is an on-line support group started in 2000 which currently has more than 86,000 members.
Although some grants go to unions and parties that are close to the Administration's policy line, others support groups that disagree with Washington on the danger of the Soviet threat, for instance, or on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.
I started with gambling help lines and support groups like Gam-Anon.
However, given the large proportion of women who work in the informal sector in India, an avenue that may yield greater benefits is focussing on schools for special needs children as a location for introducing and advertising ancillary support for caregivers such as counselling services, telephone help lines, and support groups for parents.
Figure 1 illustrates how these respondents rated the importance of ICI, pre-printed hospital information, the media and information obtained from HPs. Telephone help lines, patient support groups, internet chat rooms and other patients with cancer were all considered much less important information resources.
