Online health information, situational effects and health changes among e-patients in Israel: A 'push/pull' perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background/context

Access and use of online health information become increasingly important to health-oriented individual that may have implication for their health and wellness. The phenomenon of e-patients suggests that e-patients use the internet to increase health literacy and achieve health information about diagnosis, treatments, specialists and well-being before undergoing a health changes. Online health information may not 'fit' consultations with providers mainly when online source of information is trusted mainly when e-patients express lack of satisfaction with health-care providers. The strain between the two becomes evident when e-patients consider health changes.

Objective

We examine health changes among e-patients. We assess the relationship between (a) trust

SUBMITTER: Mano R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5810750 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature