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Health Beliefs, Protective Behaviors, and Information-Seeking

Nursing Research
Background The outbreak of COVID-19 caused severe damage to public health globally and served as a stark reminder of the potential for future pandemics. Promoting protective behaviors to prevent the spread of any contagious disease thus remains a priority.
Yen-Wen Liu, Chia-Chun Tang
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Information seeking

Advances in Nursing Science, 1984
The information-seeking patterns of clients have received little attention in nursing theory and research, but they are important antecedents of health-related decisions and behavior. The concept of information seeking is analyzed within the framework of a six-step process model. Inter-related dimensions of the information search process are identified
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Adolescents' Health Information–Seeking Behavior: A Scoping Review

Journal of Adolescent Health
Given the importance of adolescents' well-being and the growing accessibility of health resources, it is imperative to examine the adolescents' health information-seeking behaviors. The aim of this review is to provide a thorough assessment of the health information-seeking behavior of adolescents as evidenced in contemporary literature.
Ferdos Saraipour, Sirous Panahi, Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Azita Shahraki-Mohammadi   +3 more
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Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Students at Kuwait University

International Information & Library Review, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the health information-seeking behavior of Kuwait University undergraduates.
Elham Aldousari, Nujoud Al-Muomen
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Psychosocial determinants of health information seeking behavior

2023
Health information seeking behavior (HISB) concerns all the actions that individuals undertake to obtain information about their or others' health, with the goal to fulfill an information need. Several models exist that describe factors affecting HISB, for example the comprehensive model of information seeking, the planned risk information seeking ...
te Poel, F., Tanis, M.
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Assessing Health Consumerism on the Web: A Demographic Profile of Information-Seeking Behaviors

Journal of Medical Systems, 2006
The growing diversity of the online health information community is increasingly cited as a limiting factor related to the potential of the Internet as an effective health communication channel and information resource. Public-access Internet portals and decreasing costs of personal computers have created a consensus that unequal access to information,
Daniel P. Lorence, Heeyoung Park, Susannah Fox   +2 more
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Health Information-Seeking Behaviors Among Classically Trained Singers

Journal of Voice, 2012
Understanding health information-seeking behaviors (HISBs) within a particular patient demographic group is an important part of effective clinical outreach and education efforts. Although the community of classically trained singers has long been recognized by specialized health care providers, no studies have yet addressed the processes by which they
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A Review of models and theories of health information seeking behavior

International Journal of Health System and Disaster Management, 2014
One of the ways for preventing diseases is the transfer of health information by educating the patients and encouraging them to search for related information. Knowledge of patient information seeking behavior can provide health and health information experts with valuable information used to improve the patients' health.
Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi, Anasik Lalazaryan   +1 more
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Does Online Health Information Seeking Act Like a Health Behavior?: A Test of the Behavioral Model

Telemedicine and e-Health, 2010
This analysis tests the hypothesis that health information search can be modeled using the behavioral model, a tool traditionally used for other healthcare behaviors.The Pew Internet and American Life August 2006 Survey was used to model five selected Internet health information seeking behaviors: information on a specific disease, diet and nutrition ...
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Health Information Seeking Behavior among College Students

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2016
Literature on Health Information Seeking Behavior (HISB) are available and well documented in developed countries. People in developed countries have also better understanding and awareness on online health information sources. However, the research coverage is very limited in developing countries, especially among college students.
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