2018http://unisep.lib.unishams.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/55472024-03-29T04:51:26Z2024-03-29T04:51:26ZA Conceptual Understanding Of Health Virtual CommunitiesNorzaila Binti Mohamad NorNafishah Binti OthmanShafiz Affendi Bin M.Yusofhttp://unisep.lib.unishams.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/126072020-02-15T03:36:13Z2018-10-31T00:00:00ZA Conceptual Understanding Of Health Virtual Communities
Norzaila Binti Mohamad Nor; Nafishah Binti Othman; Shafiz Affendi Bin M.Yusof
The rapid dispersion in Web 2.0 technologies have led to a paradigm shift where people increasingly gain health-related information and support through virtual communities. The significance of health virtual communities has been proven by the positive impact they bring on the lives of the patients and their families members. This paper presents a conceptual understanding of virtual communities which promote a new platform for health communication. It provides a brief discussion on the background of virtual communities and its sub topics, the health virtual communities. The definition and categories of virtual communities are reviewed, as well as main issues on participation of doctors in the health based communities, in an effort to understand how their participation in health virtual communities may affect their different life domains, especially the work and family life, in the near future.
2018-10-31T00:00:00ZCan Doctors Volunteering Online in Health Virtual Community Achieve Work-Family Balance?Norzaila binti Mohamad NorNafishah binti OthmanShafiz Affendi bin Mohd Yusofhttp://unisep.lib.unishams.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/110072019-05-05T03:42:46Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZCan Doctors Volunteering Online in Health Virtual Community Achieve Work-Family Balance?
Norzaila binti Mohamad Nor; Nafishah binti Othman; Shafiz Affendi bin Mohd Yusof
Online volunteering is one of the most evident examples of how information communication technology has influenced volunteerism. Volunteering online is prevalent for its flexibility in terms of time and place, allowing individuals to volunteer at any time or any space that they desire. While the technologies may increase flexibility for doctors volunteering online to respond to their work or family, somehow it also allows the online volunteering work to spill over into work or home life, blur the boundaries between work and family domains, hence increases work -family conflict. This study attempt to develop a conceptual framework associated with the potential of achieving work and family balance among doctors volunteering online in health virtual community. The proposed framework is guided by the work -family Border theory to provide a broader understanding of how the embracement of Internet technology for volunteering affects the negotiation of work-family boundaries. The paper described the important concept in online volunteering and work -family balance, and then reviews the border theory that provides the perspectives in which work -family balance embrace other important domain such as online volunteering.
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