Colditz Jason B, Hsiao Lily H, Bergman Brandon G, Best David W, Hulsey Eric G, Sidani Jaime E, Rollman Bruce L, Kraemer Kevin L
Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place #600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States.
Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, & Harvard Medical School, 151 Merrimac Street, 4th Fl., Boston, MA 02114, United States.
Internet Interv. 2024 Jan 13;35:100708. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2024.100708. eCollection 2024 Mar.
In developing public resources for the Networks Enhancing Addiction Recovery - Forum Activity Roadmap (NEAR-FAR), we completed a systematic observational study of English-language online forums related to recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction in late 2021. Among 207 identified forums, the majority were classified as "general addiction" or alcohol-focused, though classifications related to other substances were common on websites hosting multiple forums. Commonly used social media platforms such as Reddit, Facebook, or Quora offered easily accessible venues for individuals seeking online support related to a variety of substances. Forums were related to established recovery programs such as 12-step and SMART Recovery as well as other nonprofit and for-profit recovery programs, and to community forums without formal recovery programming. Among 148 forums with any observed user activity, the median time between unique user engagements was 27 days (inter-quartile range: 2-74). Among 98 forums with past-month posting activity, we found a median of <10 posts per week (inter-quartile range: 1-78). This study compares three metrics of observed forum activity (posts per week, responses per post, time between unique user engagements) and operationalizes forum characteristics that may potentiate opportunities for enhanced engagement and social support in addiction recovery.
在为网络增强成瘾康复——论坛活动路线图（NEAR-FAR）开发公共资源时，我们于2021年末对与酒精或其他药物成瘾康复相关的英语在线论坛进行了一项系统观察研究。在确定的207个论坛中，大多数被归类为“一般成瘾”或专注于酒精，不过在托管多个论坛的网站上，与其他物质相关的分类也很常见。Reddit、Facebook或Quora等常用社交媒体平台为寻求与各种物质相关在线支持的个人提供了易于访问的场所。论坛与诸如12步康复法和SMART康复法等既定康复计划以及其他非营利性和营利性康复计划相关，也与没有正式康复计划的社区论坛相关。在148个有任何观察到的用户活动的论坛中，独特用户参与之间的中位时间为27天（四分位间距：2-74）。在98个有过去一个月发帖活动的论坛中，我们发现每周的发帖中位数<10条（四分位间距：1-78）。本研究比较了观察到的论坛活动的三个指标（每周发帖数、每条帖子的回复数、独特用户参与之间的时间），并对可能增强成瘾康复中参与度和社会支持机会的论坛特征进行了操作化。
