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"I'm Not Like My Friends"
2015
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW '15
Children diagnosed with a chronic illness, such as cancer, experience a vastly different childhood than their healthy counterparts. They may struggle with accepting that they are no longer seen as "normal". We surveyed 10 children who have a chronic illness and interviewed 15 healthcare professionals and 7 parents of chronically ill children to understand their communication practices and challenges of how these patients stay connected with their peers. We found that due to the nature of their
doi:10.1145/2675133.2675201
dblp:conf/cscw/LiuIP15
fatcat:kmzfvzum3jfireea366sn4rwmi