User Engagement Within an Online Peer Support Community (Depression Connect) and Recovery-Related Changes in Empowerment: Longitudinal User Survey

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/39912, first published May 27, 2022.

Dorien Smit ^{1, 2} , MSc ; Janna N Vrijsen ^{1, 3} , PhD ; Theo Broekman ⁴ , MSc ; Bart Groeneweg ⁵ , PhD ; Jan Spijker ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD

¹ Pro Persona Mental Health Care, Pro Persona Research, Depression Expertise Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands

² Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

³ Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands

⁴ Bureau Bêta, Nijmegen, Netherlands

⁵ Dutch Depression (Patient) Association, Amersfoort, Netherlands

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