Impacts of Internet Use on Chinese Patients' Trust-Related Primary Healthcare Utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The internet has greatly improved the availability of medical knowledge and may be an important avenue to improve patients' trust in physicians and promote primary healthcare seeking by reducing information asymmetry. However, very few studies have addressed the interactive impacts of both patients' internet use and trust on primary healthcare-seeking decisions.

Objective

To explore the impact of internet use on the relationship between patients' trust in physicians and primary healthcare seeking among Chinese adults 18 years of age and older to understand the varieties of effects in different cities.

Methods

Generalized linear mixed models were applied to investigate the interactive impacts of internet use and patients' trust in physicians on primary healt

SUBMITTER: Lu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9602738 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature