No

Publication

Type of chronic disease

Type of social media

Duration of intervention by the social media

Research Implementation Country

1

(Anhøj, Nielsen, & Nordfeldt, 2011) [3]

Asthma

Discussion forum

30 days

Denmark

2

(Gupta et al., 2012) [4]

Collaboration through social media

21 days

Canada

3

(Broom, 2005) [5]

Prostate cancer

Online support group

-

Australia

4

(Gómez-Zúñiga, Fernandez-Luque, Pousada, Hernández-Encuentra, & Armayones, 2012) [6]

Varied

YouTube

-

varied

5

(Wentzer & Bygholm, 2013) [7]

Varied

Support group

-

Denmark