Researchers have known for several decades that a robust social support network improves overall well-being for people of all ages. Those with stronger support networks tend to experience a positive ...

Social support can be viewed in various ways and is generally referred to as emotional and/or physical help, assistance, or comfort that is received or given from social networks including, but not ...

Meeting patients’ needs—inside and outside the clinic walls—is essential to help ensure patients with cancer achieve optimal outcomes. Socioeconomic and environmental insecurities make it more ...

Despite all our digital connections, we are in the midst of what U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has described as an epidemic of loneliness. That sense of isolation is what Nicole Kenney wants to ...

Many years ago, while I was a graduate student, I was writing a research paper on coping and social support. I became interested in the concept of social support as a means of individual growth and ...