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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, Young Ji, Lee, Martha, Rodriguez, Rebecca, Schnall, Alexander F H, Low   +4 more
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Exploring the health information seeking behavior of social media users under the background of COVID-19 pandemic: An empirical study based on social cognitive theory

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
With the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, people’s awareness of actively searching for health information has been growing. Coupled with the promotion of “Internet + medical and health,” social media, as an important platform for health information ...
Xiaoyi Zhang, Beibei Chen, Guo-Wang Li, Yueqi Dong   +3 more
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Generation Gaps in Digital Health Literacy and Their Impact on Health Information Seeking Behavior and Health Empowerment in Hungary

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Today the internet is a major source of health information, and younger generations have more confidence in their digital information seeking skills and awareness of online resources than older generations.
Orsolya Papp-Zipernovszky, Marianna Horváth, P. Schulz, M. Csabai   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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, Frances C. Johnson, Laura Sbaffi   +2 more
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Health-promoting behavior among undergraduate students in the COVID-19 era: Its association with problematic use of social media, social isolation, and online health information-seeking behavior

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2023
Objective To examine the association between problematic use of social media, online health information-seeking, social isolation, and health-promoting behaviors among Korean undergraduate students.
Chaeyoung Lee, Yujeong Choi, Kyounghae Kim, Yein Lim, H. Im, Se-Jin Hong   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Information Seeking Behavior of Occupational Health Nurses [PDF]

AAOHN Journal, 2001
A questionnaire designed to study the information seeking behavior of professional nurses was mailed to 600 occupational health nurses who work and reside in New York State. A 28% response rate (165 usable replies) was obtained. Results indicated respondents most need to know about government regulations relating to health care, new developments in ...
J W, Lathey, B, Hodge
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Health literacy and digital health information-seeking behavior – a cross-sectional study among highly educated Swedes

BMC Public Health, 2022
The benefits of digital development in health care may be obscured by unequal opportunities to make use of digital resources. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of health literacy with I) accessing health check test results in the ...
Erica Sundell, J. Wångdahl, Å. Grauman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the Online Health Information-Seeking Behavior in a Sample of Italian Women: The “SEI Donna” Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
There is much discussion about the skills of people in understanding and managing online health information. The Italian survey “SEI Donna” aimed to investigate perceptions and use of the web in women regarding health issues considering their health ...
L. Covolo, M. Guana, G. Bonaccorsi, L. Brunelli, S. Castaldi, Antonella de Donno, A. Mereu, M. Verani, U. Gelatti   +8 more
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The Chain Mediating Effect of the Public's Online Health Information-Seeking Behavior on Doctor-Patient Interaction

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Objective This paper aims to explore the influence mechanisms of online health information-seeking behavior (OHISB) on doctor-patient interactions from a psychological perspective, using theory as a guide, which can effectively guide the mode of doctor ...
Ai-Jing Luo, Zhen Yu, Fei Liu, Wenzhao Xie   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mapping Publication Trends and Identifying Hot Spots of Research on Internet Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Quantitative and Co-Word Biclustering Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2015
BackgroundThe Internet has become an established source of health information for people seeking health information. In recent years, research on the health information seeking behavior of Internet users has become an increasingly important scholarly ...
Li, Fan, Li, Min, Guan, Peng, Ma, Shuang, Cui, Lei   +4 more
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