Print Email Facebook Twitter eHealth WhatsApp Group for Social Support Title eHealth WhatsApp Group for Social Support: Preliminary Results Author Simons, L.P.A. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence; TU Delft Network Architectures and Services) van den Heuvel, Wouter A.C. (Health Coach Programma) Jonker, C.M. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence) Contributor Pucihar, Andreja (editor) Kljajić Borštnar, Mirjana (editor) Ravesteijn, Pascal (editor) Seitz, Jurgen (editor) Bons, Roger (editor) Date 2018 Abstract Within groups that are starting a healthy lifestyle intervention together, there is potential for social e-support, as an addition to individual coaching. However, the support technology should be low-tech, low-threshold and preferably already omnipresent. A WhatsApp group was chosen as support tool, given the large variety of groups normally coached: from elderly, IT-phobic diabetics to highly educated young professionals.In this explorative pilot study, 11 young professionals volunteered. Despite their time-constrained schedules, 81 user inputs were generated in the first weeks, and the users valued the WhatsApp group as an attractive social support addition to the existing eTools and personal coaching which have a more functional focus on individual progress. Based on preliminary results: a) the WhatsApp group generated higher participation than most other social media, b) deploying social media use motives, c) possibly due to the relatively high ‘presence’ and ‘engagement’ attributes of WhatsApp, and d) contributing to healthy behaviours and health advocacy. Subject eHealthWhatsApp GroupPeer CoachingService Design To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c6d82930-2f37-4d26-9d4e-315bc26967f8 DOI https://doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-170-4.14 Publisher University of Maribor, Maribor Embargo date 2018-12-13 ISBN 978-961-286-170-4 Source Conference Proceedings of the 31st Bled eConference Digital Transformation: Meeting the Challenges Event 31st Bled eConference, 2018-06-17 → 2018-06-20, Bled, Slovenia Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2018 L.P.A. Simons, Wouter A.C. van den Heuvel, C.M. Jonker Files PDF 2018_Simons_Bled_eHealth_ ... upport.pdf 958.64 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c6d82930-2f37-4d26-9d4e-315bc26967f8/datastream/OBJ/view