A model for predicting factors affecting health information avoidance on WeChat [PDF]
Digital HealthObjective WeChat serves as a crucial source of health information, distinguished by its highly personalized nature. Avoidance of such personalized health information has a direct impact on individuals’ health decision-making.
Minghong Chen +4 more
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Information and authority: research on the mechanism of offspring's health information avoidance behavior [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthThe health information shared by parents with their offspring, while originating from a place of care, has in practice led to resistance from the offspring.
Qiong Dang +4 more
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Mindfulness Intervention for Health Information Avoidance in Older Adults: Mixed Methods Study [PDF]
JMIR Public Health and SurveillanceBackgroundThe global aging population and rapid development of digital technology have made health management among older adults an urgent public health issue.
Chenyu Gu, Liquan Qian, Xiaojie Zhuo
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Generation Z’s Health Information Avoidance Behavior: Insights From Focus Group Discussions [PDF]
Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundYounger generations actively use social media to access health information. However, research shows that they also avoid obtaining health information online at times when confronted with uncertainty ...
Chenjin Jia, Pengcheng Li
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Health Information Avoidance and eHealth Literacy in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: A Cross‐Sectional Correlational Study [PDF]
Health Science ReportsBackground and Aims Information avoidance refers to deliberately evading or delaying access to freely accessible but undesired information, and eHealth literacy refers to people's capability to comprehend, assess, find, and use health knowledge derived ...
Leila Mobasher +4 more
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Research on health information avoidance behavior and influencing factors of cancer patients—an empirical analysis based on structural equation modeling [PDF]
BMC Public HealthObjective To explore the health information avoidance behaviors and influencing factors of cancer patients, and to construct a structural equation model to analyze the mediating roles of self-efficacy and negative emotions in the process of generating ...
Rui Zhu +7 more
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Investigating Oral Health Information Avoidance Among Chinese Young Adults: The Roles of Subjective Norms, Message Fatigue, and Loss Aversion—A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesAs media users increasingly engage in defensive avoidance or disengagement from health-related content, oral health information has attracted growing attention, particularly given the tendency of Chinese young adults to avoid such content. This avoidance
Dehuan Liu +3 more
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When breast cancer patients participate in ritual interactive activities: the mechanism of perceived emotional synchrony on health information avoidance [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionHealth information avoidance (HIA) creates serious health risks, particularly for patients with serious health problems such as breast cancer.
Jie Chen +4 more
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Latent profile analysis of uncertainty in illness and eating self-efficacy in patients with gastric cancer and its associated factors: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundPatients with gastric cancer frequently experience substantial psychological burden throughout diagnosis and treatment. Uncertainty in illness and eating self-efficacy are two key determinants of psychological adjustment and rehabilitation ...
Minyi Shi +4 more
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The Health Risks of Information Avoidance: A RISP Perspective
LibriThe study aimed to measure and validate the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model among university students, exploring the factors that predict health information avoidance behaviors and their association with health risk behaviors.
Liu Yang +3 more
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