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Research on health information avoidance behavior and influencing factors of cancer patients—an empirical analysis based on structural equation modeling [PDF]
BMC Public HealthObjective To explore the health information avoidance behaviors and influencing factors of cancer patients, and to construct a structural equation model to analyze the mediating roles of self-efficacy and negative emotions in the process of generating ...
Rui Zhu +7 more
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Generation Z’s Health Information Avoidance Behavior: Insights From Focus Group Discussions
Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundYounger generations actively use social media to access health information. However, research shows that they also avoid obtaining health information online at times when confronted with uncertainty ...
Chenjin Jia, Pengcheng Li
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Avoid or verify? How do social media users navigate cognitive conflict in health information on social media platforms? [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthUnder the background of the digital intelligence era, users easily access diverse health information with varying perspectives through multiple social media channels, often falling into a dilemma of informational cognitive conflict.
Chengyi Le +7 more
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Mindfulness Intervention for Health Information Avoidance in Older Adults: Mixed Methods Study
JMIR Public Health and SurveillanceBackgroundThe global aging population and rapid development of digital technology have made health management among older adults an urgent public health issue.
Chenyu Gu, Liquan Qian, Xiaojie Zhuo
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Mindfulness reduces information avoidance [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2023 Mindfulness meditation has been found to influence various important outcomes such as health, stress, depression, productivity, and altruism. We report evidence from a randomised-controlled trial on a previously untested effect of mindfulness: information avoidance. We find that a relatively short mindfulness treatment (two weeks, 15 min a day) is able
Elliott Ash +3 more
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Health Behavior Research, 2022 Public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been insufficient at keeping the virus from spreading rapidly and threatening public health around the globe. Not only has society been challenged by biomedical issues of disease contagion, infection,
Xuewei Chen +3 more
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ARID International Journal of Informetrics, 2022 Information is normally considered as a mean to a desired end. However, a growing theoretical and experimental literature suggested that information may directly enter the agent’s utility function. This can create an incentive to avoid information, even when it is useful, free, and independent of strategic considerations. In this study, the researchers
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Journal of Economic Literature, 2015 We commonly think of information as a means to an end. However, a growing theoretical and experimental literature suggests that information may directly enter the agent's utility function. This can create an incentive to avoid information, even when it is useful, free, and independent of strategic considerations.
Golman, Russell +2 more
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Financial risk information avoidance [PDF]
Ekonomska Istrazivanja-Economic Research, 2018 Availability of information is one of the most important factors for financial decision-makers. Having complete information about the probability of losing money should always leave decision-makers better off. However, in some situations financial decision-makers prefer to know less than more.
Anna Blajer-Gołębiewska +2 more
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Delaying information search [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 In three studies, we examined factors that may temporarily attenuate information search. People are generally curious and dislike uncertainty, which typically encourages them to look for relevant information.
Yaniv Shani +2 more
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