Mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing: Psychosocial processes in an online support group of breast cancer patients.Breast cancer patients are primary users of Internet Health Forums, virtual self-help communities where they find and share information, preoccupations, and support.  Thematic analysis identified five processes-mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing-that marked three phases of users' experience: initiation, participation, detachment. 
Mirroring
Mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing: Psychosocial processes in an online support group of breast cancer patients.Breast cancer patients are primary users of Internet Health Forums, virtual self-help communities where they find and share information, preoccupations, and support.  Thematic analysis identified five processes-mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing-that marked three phases of users' experience: initiation, participation, detachment. 
monitoring
Mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing: Psychosocial processes in an online support group of breast cancer patients.Breast cancer patients are primary users of Internet Health Forums, virtual self-help communities where they find and share information, preoccupations, and support.  Thematic analysis identified five processes-mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing-that marked three phases of users' experience: initiation, participation, detachment. 
modelling
Mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing: Psychosocial processes in an online support group of breast cancer patients.Breast cancer patients are primary users of Internet Health Forums, virtual self-help communities where they find and share information, preoccupations, and support.  Thematic analysis identified five processes-mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing-that marked three phases of users' experience: initiation, participation, detachment. 
belonging
Mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing: Psychosocial processes in an online support group of breast cancer patients.Breast cancer patients are primary users of Internet Health Forums, virtual self-help communities where they find and share information, preoccupations, and support.  Thematic analysis identified five processes-mirroring, monitoring, modelling, belonging, and distancing-that marked three phases of users' experience: initiation, participation, detachment. 
distancing