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Social capital and health information seeking in China
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background People’s potentials to seek health information can be affected by their social context, such as their social networks and the resources provided through those social networks.
Qianfeng Lu +4 more
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Editorial: Health information seeking, processing, and sharing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Rachel L. Bailey
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Health information seeking in the information society [PDF]
Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2012 AbstractThis article is the second student contribution to the Dissertations into Practice feature. It reports on a study that investigated the everyday health information‐seeking practices of a small group of the ‘general public’ and the implications for information‐seeking theory and health information provision.
Mukherjee, A., Bawden, D.
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"It gave me relief...it gave me confidence" - the online health information seeking experiences of adults with chronic health conditions. [PDF]
Background- The recent modernisation of the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) has included a number of sizeable reforms that have emphasised partnership relationships between patients and professionals, and the importance of individuals ...
Mayoh, Joanne
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Health Literacy, Information Seeking, and Trust in Information in Haitians [PDF]
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2015 To assess heath literacy, health information seeking, and trust in health-related information among Haitian immigrants seen in primary care.Health literacy was measured by the Brief Health Literacy Screen (BHLS); items on health information use were from the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey.BHLS scores differed according to age, education,
Erica I, Lubetkin +5 more
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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2022 Background: The internet is fast becoming one of the key instruments for seeking health-related information. This study aimed to investigate factors associated with internet use for health information among adults in the Russian Federation and to ...
Nikita Valerevich Polukhin +1 more
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Seeking Health Information in Wikipedia and Readers' Satisfaction
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2021 AbstractThis current paper describes the results of our study on users' health information seeking in Wikipedia and on their subsequent satisfaction as an indicator of future Wikipedia usage for health information needs. We examine six factors associated with user’ satisfaction.
Boryung Ju +2 more
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Factors associated with mobile health information seeking among Singaporean women [PDF]
, 2016 This study examined effects of age and social psychological factors on women’s willingness to be mobile health information seekers. A national survey of 1,878 Singaporean women was conducted to obtain information on women’s mobile phone usage ...
Choo Tai, Bee +13 more
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The Information Sharing Behaviour of Health Service Managers: a three-part study [PDF]
, 2011 Objectives – The purpose of this research was to gain insight into the information behaviour of health service managers as they informed critical decisions unrelated to individual patient care.
MacDonald, Jacqueline M
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Investigating the information-seeking behaviour of academic lawyers: from Ellis’s model to design [PDF]
, 2007 Information-seeking is important for lawyers, who have access to many dedicated electronic resources. However there is considerable scope for improving the design of these resources to better support information-seeking. One way of informing design is to
Cox, Anna L. +6 more
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