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Monitoring or avoiding health information – the relation to inner inclination and health status

Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2011
AbstractBackground:  The way a person responds to health information, for instance by actively seeking it out or avoiding it, is an important part of overall coping with health issues. This study starts from the assumption that there are individual differences in information behaviour in charged contexts such as when faced with the stress and anxiety ...
Heinström Jannica, Ek Stefan
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Emotional responses to COVID-19 stressors increase information avoidance about an important unrelated health threat

PLoS ONE, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic, like other crises, has had direct and indirect impacts on individuals, many of which have been negative. While a large body of research has examined the impacts of COVID-19 on people's lives, there is little evidence about how ...
Christopher R. Gustafson, Kathleen R. Brooks, Syed Imran Ali Meerza, Amalia Yiannaka   +3 more
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The More Insufficient, the More Avoidance? Cognitive and Affective Factors that Relates to Information Behaviours in Acute Risks

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study examines the relationship between cognitive and affective factors and people's information-seeking and -avoiding behaviours in acute risks with a 1,946-sample online survey conducted in February 2020, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 ...
Shuguang Zhao, Yiming Liu
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Sociodemographic factors and perceived patient-provider communication associated with healthcare avoidance among women with psychological distress

PEC Innovation, 2022
Objective: To establish the extent to which psychological distress influences health avoidance behavior among women, controlling for patient provider communication and sociodemographic characteristics.
Kobi V. Ajayi, Sonya Panjwani, Whitney Garney, Carly E. McCord   +3 more
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Physical health mindsets and information avoidance

Journal of Behavioral Medicine
AbstractHealth mindsets refer to beliefs about the malleability (growth mindset) versus stability (fixed mindset) of physical health and have gained traction as a predictor of health beliefs and behaviors. Across two studies, we tested whether health mindsets were associated with avoiding personalized health risk information. In Study 2, we also tested
Abigail G. O’Brien, Jeremy L. Foust, Jennifer M. Taber   +2 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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Patterns of Online Information Seeking and Avoidance about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC), 2022
Based on the uncertainty management theory considering different information-based coping strategies that are relevant during health crises, the purpose of the present study is to understand how individuals seek and avoid information during the COVID-19
Elena Link, Magdalena Rosset, Anna Freytag   +2 more
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Social media use for health, cultural characteristics, and demographics: A survey of Pakistani millennials

Digital Health, 2022
Objective Over the last 10 years, an extensive body of literature has been produced to investigate the role of social media in health. However, little is known about the impact of cultural characteristics (e.g.
Muhammad Ittefaq, Hyunjin Seo, Mauryne Abwao, Annalise Baines   +3 more
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Are Fertility Preservation Procedures Before Gonadotoxic Therapy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Feasible and Safe in Very Young Children? A Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Fertility preservation (FP) is increasingly integrated into the care of pediatric patients exposed to gonadotoxic therapy or conditioning for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), yet perioperative data in infants and toddlers remain scarce.
Kerstin Saalabian, Yannick Braun, Till‐Martin Theilen, Anke Barnbrock, Theresa Rohm, Fabienne Hammant, Nicole Sänger, Aynura Abbasova‐Semiz, Jan‐Henning Klusmann, Thomas Klingebiel, Udo Rolle, Peter Bader, Henning C. Fiegel, Andrea Jarisch   +13 more
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The impact of health information echo chambers on older adults avoidance behavior: the mediating role of information fatigue and the moderating role of trait mindfulness

Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundIn the digital media era, the prevalence of algorithm-driven content push has intensified the health information echo chambers phenomenon, characterized by excessive homogenization and overload of information.
Fuxiu Zhong, Chenyu Gu, Chenyu Gu
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