Developing a framework for understanding health information behavior change from avoidance to acquisition: a grounded theory exploration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health information avoidance is common in real life, but because it is not always conducive to health promotion and maintenance, people often actively switch to health information acquisition. Understanding this process of active change can facilitate intervention in unreasonable avoidance behaviors. However, studies so far have mostly focused on why and how avoidance takes place, little is known about the process of active change from avoidance to acquisition. We thus use a grounded theory approach (GT) to explore how the active change takes place, and to generate a grounded theoretical framework capable of illustrating stages and influencing factors involved in the active change process.

Methods

Straussian grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss, 2015) was used to ana

SUBMITTER: Sun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9166210 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature