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Explanatory_Memo – Coping self-efficacy influences health information avoidance
2020Explanatory_Memo for Coping self-efficacy influences health information avoidance by Jacqueline Hua and Jennifer L.
Hua, Jacqueline, Howell, Jennifer L.
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Powerful audiences are linked to health information avoidance: Results from two surveys
Social Science & Medicine, 2019We examined the extent to which community members avoid medical information that they may very much want, yet fear that others may use to harm them.In two online studies, we surveyed participants (N = 659) about their experiences with insurer and employer harm, past avoidance of medical information, intentions to avoid medical information, and reasons ...
Nikolette P. Lipsey, James A. Shepperd
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Information Development
The study aims at measuring and validating the stimulus organism response (SOR) theory among health consumers, as well as identifying the factors that predict health information avoidance behavior and its relationship to risk behaviors. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to collect the data from health consumers, who have either recently used
Zijun Shen +3 more
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The study aims at measuring and validating the stimulus organism response (SOR) theory among health consumers, as well as identifying the factors that predict health information avoidance behavior and its relationship to risk behaviors. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to collect the data from health consumers, who have either recently used
Zijun Shen +3 more
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Informal Bankruptcy: Health Expenditure Shocks and Financial Distress Avoidance
Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2018This article studies the financial decision-making behavior of U.S. families that have difficulties paying for their medical bills and investigate what alternatives they have to avoid filing for formal bankruptcy and what influence their motivation to do so. Using household financial and demographic information from the Health Tracking Household Survey
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Googling as avoidance: anxiety responses to online health information about long COVID
Anxiety, Stress, & CopingBackground and Objectives: People search the internet for health information, although this increases anxiety and worry, particularly in the health-anxious. Applying the avoidance theory of worrying, we tested whether online health research serves to emotionally distance oneself from illness.Design and Method: Googling long COVID was compared to ...
Juina Herlitz +2 more
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Impact of health risk perception on avoidance of international travel in the wake of a pandemic
Current Issues in Tourism, 2021Bee-Lia Chua, Heesup Han, Amr Al-Ansi
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Health and environmental risk communication aims to promote informed judgments and decision making. For this, people need to achieve two initial goals: (1) to access risk information and (2) to understand such information. This chapter firstly discusses relevant barriers that can prevent people from adequately accessing information, taking into ...
Kloever, Sophie Azita, Gaspar, Rui
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Kloever, Sophie Azita, Gaspar, Rui
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Optimal mental health belief formation with information avoidance: A decision-theoretic model
Journal of Health EconomicsMental health stigma hinders access to healthcare by distorting belief formation and decision-making. Stigmatized individuals often underestimate their risk of mental illness and avoid diagnostic information. This study develops a decision-theoretic model that formalizes how stigma reinforces identity-congruent actions, driving belief distortion and ...
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Agency beliefs are associated with lower health information avoidance
Health Education Journal, 2021Erika A Waters +2 more
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