Universities: Bolton, Manchester, 2017
Prescott, J., Hanley, T., & Ujhelyi Gomez, K.
The aim of the research was to gain an understanding of how young people use an online forum on Kooth for emotional and mental health issues. There was an investigation into what young people discuss and how they seek support on the forum and how the young service users responded to posts to gain an understanding of how young people provided each other with peer-to-peer support.Online forums provide young people with both informational and emotional support around a wide array of topics. Informational/emotional support can be seen as either directive or non-directive.