WHY THEY SELF-DISCLOSE？EXAMINING FACTORS INFLUENCING PEOPLE\u27S PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURE IN ONLINE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITIES RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS

Online healthcare communities (OHCs) encourage people to disclose their personal information with others to seek support and to accelerate research and help create better treatments. However, disclosing personal information might cause privacy disclosure and some risks. This paper aims to explore what factors and how those factors affect people’s personal information disclosure intention in OHCs. Based on “risk-motivation” perspective, we identify perceived usefulness as extrinsic motivation and social support as intrinsic motivation, and distinguish four kinds of risks to test those motivation and risk factors’ effects on people’s personal information disclose intention in OHCs. As two constructs describing the characteristics of OHCs, expected disease severe extent and common identity are supposed having moderating effects’ on motivation and risk factors’ effects. The theoretical contribution of this paper is offering a model to explain people’s personal information disclose intention in OHCs and integrate constructs to describe the characteristic of OHCs; the practical implications is providing insight on OHC managers’ operation for communities’ viability and people’s privacy protection. Finally, limitations and future works also are presented

“Render a service worthy of me”: A qualitative study of factors influencing access to LGBTQ-specific health services

For a half-century, LGBTQ-specific health services have sought to address the unmet health care needs of LGBTQ people in the U.S. However, there is a dearth of research examining factors that influence LGBTQ care-seekers’ reasons for choosing LGBTQ-specific services and their experiences accessing care. This interview-based study explored factors that facilitate and inhibit access to LGBTQ-specific health services among a sample of 40 LGBTQ adults in a major U.S. city. Using framework analysis, emergent themes were organized into supply- and demand side factors, guided by Levesque et al.’s (2013) framework for patient-centered health care access. Supply-side factors included provider empathy and affirmation, provider knowledge, comprehensive care, and provider based stigma. Demand-side factors included care-seeker\u27s willingness for self-disclosure, care-seeker beliefs placing primacy on health needs over LGBTQ identities, contentment with general providers, a lack of knowledge for service identification, and perceptions of ability to pay. Social aspects of care seeking were also identified, including desires for social belonging, collective self-esteem, and community solidarity. Findings suggest opportunities to enhance the fit between health care policy, LGBTQ-specific provider characteristics, and care-seeker needs, particularly for multiply marginalized LGBTQ communitie

Mapping the Harmonious Society and CSR Link1

Harmonious Society was proposed by Chinese President Hu Jintao as early as 2005 as the Chinese approach towards development. This generated significant excitement among observers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) who see CSR and Harmonious Society as sharing common objectives. This paper seeks to explore whether Harmonious Society will result in an increase in CSR engagement by Chinese firms. It does so by drawing up a list of actions that if taken by the government would increase the level of CSR in China and make Harmonious Society a relevant factor in the development of Chinese CSR. To do so, my paper develops a framework for studying the elements that affect the level of CSR by dividing causes of CSR into a societal “demand” side and a discretionary supply side. Understanding what drives the development of CSR allows us to understand what measures governments can take to influence the level of CSR through these elements. Using this framework, my paper also finds that CSR in China in the near future will be largely concentrated in SOE and is unlikely to be widespread in the growing private-sector of China

Clandestino: Latino Youth and Mental Health and Art as an Outlet for One’s Emotions

According to Lawrence Public Schools (2017), 64.9% of students are economically disadvantaged, meaning that many of these students may not be receiving the mental health treatment they need. For this project, a facilitate discussion on mental health and art as an outlet for one’s emotions occurred at Elevated Thought, a youth and social justice organization in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Altogether, the discussion brought up four themes: 1) Community & Institutions, 2) Lack of Access, 3) Mistrust & Stigma, 4) Art & Self. Through creative dialogue, the youth involved successfully reflected on their understanding of mental health, the stigma behind it, and how art can act as a positive outlet for emotions, primarily as a substitution for positive relationships with adults that they lack