A Newly Developed Online Peer Support Community for Depression (Depression Connect): Qualitative Study

Published on 12.07.2021 in Vol 23, No 7 (2021): July

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25917, first published November 20, 2020.

Dorien Smit ^{1, 2} , MSc ; Janna N Vrijsen ^{1, 3} , PhD ; Bart Groeneweg ⁴ , PhD ; Amber Vellinga-Dings ⁵ , MSc ; Janneke Peelen ⁶ , PhD ; Jan Spijker ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD

¹ Depression Expertise Center, Pro Persona Mental Health Care, Nijmegen, Netherlands

² Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

³ Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

⁴ Dutch Depression Association, Amersfoort, Netherlands

⁵ Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

⁶ Research Group for Key Factors in Youth Care, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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