Adolescent Cybersurfing for Health Information

Abstract

For adolescents, the Internet is an accessed and valued information source on a range of sensitive health issues.

The use of social media among adolescents in Dar es Salaam and Mtwara, Tanzania

“…[6][7][8] These studies indicate that many young people still prefer traditional sources over the internet, including friends, family, or school. 6,7 The few studies published so far [9][10][11][12][13] have had mainly three foci: (1) analysis of social media use by "at-risk" groups such as adolescent parents, (2) approaches to targeting youth by sexual health intervention, and (3) impact assessments of online sexual and reproductive health messages on adolescents' knowledge, attitude and behaviour.…”

‘Join us on our journey’: exploring the experiences of children and young people with type 1 diabetes and their parents

“…By 2000 -and following the information revolution after the commercialization of the Internet in the mid 90s -half of the surveyed adolescents in the western world reported using the WWW for getting health information (Borzekowski & Rickert, 2001) with no upward trend noted in the proportion of adolescents using the WWW for health information (Ettel III, Nathanson, Ettel, Wilson & Meola, 2012).…”

An Empirical Investigation on the Use of Information Sources for Promoting Healthy Eating

“…Studies have investigated models of information search behaviour and information source usage in different situations (for example Abbott, 1997;Lambert & Loiselle, 2007;Theodosiou & Green, 2003;Warner & Procaccino, 2004). Although there is no one common classification system for health information sources, they can generally be classified into three categories: (1) intrapersonal sources, (2) interpersonal sources, (3) media and commercial sources (for example Borzekowski & Rickert, 2001;Brown & Walsh-Childers, 1994;Gardner, 2000;Worsley, 1989).…”