Published on in Vol 20, No 7 (2018): July

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9952, first published .
How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities

How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities

How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities

Sagar Joglekar   1 , MS ;   Nishanth Sastry   1 , PhD ;   Neil S Coulson   2 , PhD ;   Stephanie JC Taylor   3 , MD ;   Anita Patel   3 , PhD ;   Robbie Duschinsky   4 , PhD ;   Amrutha Anand   5 , MPH ;   Matt Jameson Evans   5 , MB BS ;   Chris J Griffiths   3 , D Phil ;   Aziz Sheikh   6 , MD ;   Pietro Panzarasa   7 , PhD ;   Anna De Simoni   3 , PhD

1 Department of Informatics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

2 School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Barts Institute of Population Health Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

4 Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

5 HealthUnlocked, London, United Kingdom

6 Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Usher Institute of Population Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

7 School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Anna De Simoni, PhD
  • Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research
  • Barts Institute of Population Health Sciences
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • 58 Turner street
  • London, E1 2AB
  • United Kingdom
  • Phone: 44 207 882 2520
  • Fax: 44 20 78822
  • Email: a.desimoni@qmul.ac.uk