Health Information Seeking Behavior of Pregnant Women Referring To Health Centers and its Relationship with Their Health Literacy Level [PDF]
International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2023 Improving information retrieval skills and promoting maternal health literacy of pregnant women leads to their ability to access, understand, and use health information. It leads to maintaining and promoting the health of of pregnant women.
abdalrasool Khosravi +3 more
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Online health information–seeking behavior by endocrinology patients [PDF]
Hormones, 2019 Abstract Purpose Given that the Internet is important for health-related information (HRI) and the fact that online health information (OHI)–seeking behavior has never been studied in endocrinology, we set out to examine how and why the Internet is utilized for HRI, the frequency of such activity, its impact, future information needs, and the effect of
Angelos Kyriacou, Cathy Sherratt
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A grounded theory study on medical students’ proxy online health information seeking behavior [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Although Internet has become the main way of access to health and medical information for most young people today, it might not be the case with older people.
Pan Minghao +6 more
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Factors affecting online health information-seeking behavior in young and middle-aged patients with stroke. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study aimed to explore the characteristics of online health information-seeking behavior and the influencing factors among young and middle-aged Chinese patients with stroke.
Ge Shi +5 more
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Knowledge level and health information-seeking behavior of people with diabetes in rural areas: a multicenter cross-sectional study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionThere is a lack of research on the current level of diabetes knowledge and health information-seeking behaviors among patients with diabetes in rural areas of China’s economically underdeveloped regions during COVID-19, as well as a lack of ...
Yudong Wang +6 more
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International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2022 The outbreak of COVID-19 spurs the need for information among the Nigerian populace, and people exhibit different information-seeking behavior. Understanding information needs and seeking behavior becomes expedient to ensure the adequate provision of ...
Ismail Olatunji Adeyemi +1 more
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The Health Information Seeking Behavior of Punjabi Elders During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada [PDF]
Journal of Primary Care & Community HealthHealth Information Seeking Behavior (HISB) refers to the behavior and strategies used to attain, clarify, or confirm health information. The uptake of health information depends on system-level and individual-level factors.
Amrit Thandi +3 more
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Share to Seek: The Effects of Disease Complexity on Health Information–Seeking Behavior [PDF]
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 Background Web-based question and answer (Q&A) sites have emerged as an alternative source for serving individuals’ health information needs. Although a number of studies have analyzed user-generated content in web-based Q&A sites, there is insufficient understanding of the effect of disease complexity ...
Ashwag Alasmari, Lina Zhou
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Predictors of Health Information–Seeking Behavior: Systematic Literature Review and Network Analysis
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundPeople engage in health information–seeking behavior to support health outcomes, and being able to predict such behavior can inform the development of interventions to guide effective health information seeking ...
Ardalan Mirzaei +3 more
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Gender differences in information behavior during the Covid-19 health crisis in Spain
JLIS.it, 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic has produced numerous deaths throughout the planet, although in general it has been deadlier in older people, in people with previous conditions and in males.
Michela Montesi
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