Online Health Information Seeking for Self and Child: An Experimental Study of Parental Symptom Search.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents often search the web for health-related information for themselves or on behalf of their children, which may impact their health-related decision-making and behaviors. In particular, searching for somatic symptoms such as headaches, fever, or fatigue is common. However, little is known about how psychological and relational factors relate to the characteristics of successful symptom-related internet searches. To date, few studies have used experimental designs that connect participant subjective search evaluation with objective search behavior metrics.

Objective

This study aimed to examine the features of web-based health-related search behaviors based on video-coded observational data, to investigate which psychological and relational factors are related

SUBMITTER: Kubb C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127650 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature