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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Health information-seeking behavior is the process of gathering information about health and disease and can be influential for health-related perception and behavior.
Markus Schäfer +12 more
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Components of Parental Information Seeking Behavior for Children's Health
مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2021 Introduction: Promoting community health and improving health status requires training and clarifying health information seeking behavior in the community. In this regard, due to the caring role parents have in the family, they can play an important role
Mahboobeh Momtazan +3 more
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Correlates of Older Adults’ E-Health Information-Seeking Behaviors [PDF]
Gerontology, 2022 <b><i>Introduction:</i></b> The Internet is an important source for health information and a medium for older adults’ empowerment in health decision-making and self-caring. Therefore, we aimed to identify the potential motivators and probable barriers of e-health information-seeking behaviors (e-HISB) among older Iranian adults.
Sara Pourrazavi +5 more
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مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2021 Introduction: Pregnant women use the Internet to meet their information needs. Despite the contradictory information on the web, the increase in anxiety and its negative effects on fetal growth and maternal health, the importance of online search for ...
Zivar Sabaghinejad +2 more
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Examining Health Information–Seeking Behaviors of Older Adults [PDF]
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2013 This study aims to examine which resources older adults utilize for their health information needs, how trustworthy and reliable they find these resources, and the difficulties they face in obtaining health-related information. A 41-item survey designed to understand the information-seeking characteristics of older adults was developed and distributed ...
Shomir, Chaudhuri +4 more
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Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Ethnically Diverse Adolescents [PDF]
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2013 Research on health information has primarily focused on the needs of adults or parents of children with chronic illnesses or consumers. There is limited research on the health information needs of adolescents and in particular those from underserved communities.
Anastasia E, Okoniewski +4 more
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Health Information–Seeking Behaviors, Health Indicators, and Health Risks
American Journal of Public Health, 2010 Objectives. We examined how different types of health information–seeking behaviors (HISBs)—no use, illness information only, wellness information only, and illness and wellness information combined—are associated with health risk factors and health indicators to determine possible motives for health information seeking. Methods.
James B, Weaver +5 more
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Seeking alcohol information on the Internet [PDF]
, 2003 It has been argued that people may be more willing to seek potentially threatening information on the Internet than they would in ‘real life’ (Joinson and Banyard, 2002).
Joinson, AN, Banyard, P
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Self- and surrogate-seeking of information about mental health and illness in Germany
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Seeking information on mental health issues – both for oneself and on behalf of others (so-called surrogate-seeking) – is a critical early step in dealing with mental illness and known to impede stigmatizing attitudes and foster help-seeking ...
Anna Freytag +3 more
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Gender as an influencer of online health information‐seeking and evaluation behavior [PDF]
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015 This article contributes to the growing body of research that explores the significance of context in health information behavior. Specifically, through the lens of trust judgments, it demonstrates that gender is a determinant of the information evaluation process.
Jennifer E. Rowley +2 more
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