Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria of blog posts by family caregivers of patients with leukemia.
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
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1. All blogs selected for this study were published publicly, not password-protected, and easily accessible via in-app search. | 1. Blogs were written in language other than Chinese. |
2. The blog was written in Chinese by an individual who was described as a family caregiver of a patient with leukemia. | 2. Blogs kept by associations, organizations, or companies that provided health care services were excluded since these blogs were not supposed to be purely first-person account of caregiving. |
3. The blog posts were closely related to the experience of caregiving for a family member with leukemia. | 3. Contents irrelevant to the caregiving experience, for example, posts of commercials, pure science news, were disregarded. |
4. Blogs with at least 10 posts, each with a text length of over 100 words, were included, in consideration of the continuity of detailed accounts of caregiving experience. | 4. Blogs with less than 10 posts or each post with a text length of less than 100 words were excluded. |
5. The blog was published between 2019 and 2021. | 5. Videos, pictures, hyperlinks or comments were not included. |