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Designing Positive Psychology Interventions for Social Media: Cross-Sectional Web-Based Experiment With Young Adults With Cancer

Designing Positive Psychology Interventions for Social Media: Cross-Sectional Web-Based Experiment With Young Adults With Cancer

Among the most widely studied is an act of kindness intervention: a meta-analysis of 27 randomized controlled trials (combined N=4045) found people who increase their everyday kind acts show reliable increases in well-being [19]. Recent work identifies positive experiences of social connectedness as a key active ingredient in acts of kindness interventions [20], a result consistent with other large-scale studies showing that socially engaged pursuits predict increases in well-being [18].

Allison J Lazard, Rhyan N Vereen, Jieni Zhou, Hazel B Nichols, Marlyn Pulido, Catherine Swift, Nabarun Dasgupta, Barbara L Fredrickson

JMIR Cancer 2024;10:e48627

Exposure and Reactions to Cancer Treatment Misinformation and Advice: Survey Study

Exposure and Reactions to Cancer Treatment Misinformation and Advice: Survey Study

Participants’ (N=603) average age was 46 (SD 18.83) years. See Table 1 for participant demographics and cancer characteristics and Appendix B in Multimedia Appendix 1 for demographics by stimuli exposure group. Participants identified as female (347/603, 57.5%), non-Hispanic (538/603, 89.2%), White (463/603, 76.8%), and Black or African American adults (83/603, 13.8%). Almost 1 in 5 participants (109/603, 18.1%) had a previous cancer diagnosis, and more than a third (211/603, 35%) were cancer caregivers.

Allison J Lazard, Sydney Nicolla, Rhyan N Vereen, Shanetta Pendleton, Marjory Charlot, Hung-Jui Tan, Dominic DiFranzo, Marlyn Pulido, Nabarun Dasgupta

JMIR Cancer 2023;9:e43749