From: The miscarriage circle of care: towards leveraging online spaces for social support
Support type | Examples |
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Informational | Suggestions/advice: to suggest actions and provide guidance |
Referral: referring to another source of information | |
Teaching: to explain facts or teach skills needed | |
Emotional | Empathy: to feel sorrow or empathy |
Understanding: to understand the situation of the participants | |
Esteem | Validation: to express agreement with participants perspective on the situation |
Compliment: positive comments about participants | |
Network | Access: to provide access to peers |
Friendship: request to make connections or offer to talk | |
Peer: to be reminded of the availability of existing peers | |
Tangible | Gift: to give participants something |
Direct tasks: to perform a task directly for participants |