Laypeople's Online Health Information Search Strategies and Use for Health-Related Problems: Cross-sectional Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the increase in the use of the internet to search for health information about health-related problems, there is a need for health care professionals to better understand how their patients search for and use the online health information that may influence their medical decision making.

Objective

The aims of this study are to explore laypeople's online health information search strategies and examine the relationships between their search strategies and utilization behavior of online health information.

Methods

Two scales, namely match and elaboration, were used to measure patients' basic search strategies (ie, simple approach) and advanced search strategies (ie, integrative approach), respectively. In addition, the consultation scale was used to eval

SUBMITTER: Chiu YL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482072 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature