Association of sociodemographics, technology use and health literacy among type 2 diabetic individuals living in an Indian setting: an exploratory cross-sectional study

Health information seeking behaviour: a concept analysis

“…The limited literature on access and impact on health information seeking presents opportunity for additional research. Chang and Im (2014) and Ramasamy et al (2016) work provides support for this and disagrees with the analysis from Lambert and Loiselle (2007). However, the increase in ICTs with regard to online information access shows an emerging antecedent to health information seeking behaviour that warrants additional research and analysis.…”

“…Samal et al (2011) looked at the association of HISB concerning antiretroviral therapy adherence. Finally, in another example, Ramasamy et al (2016) looked at the association between sociodemographic status and technology use with special attention to the health literacy of type II diabetes mellitus patients. Of the 26 articles found that fit within this context, most centred on specific determinants of HISB with reference to the information seeking the subject engaged in and how it was related to coping with a health threatening situation.…”

“…Fifty-six of the articles examined sources including the type of information source, the quality and if that source was personal, formal or informal (Campbell, 2009;Ghweeba et al, 2017;Gibson, 2016;Wonsun et al, 2015). Twenty-nine explored the type of health related information sought such as information about dermatology, smoking cessation or diabetes (Jung et al, 2011;Noh et al, 2016;Ramasamy et al, 2016), and 22 of them were mutually interested in sources used. Research dedicated either entirely to discrete actions, such as discussing the information with others, and active versus passive seeking habits (Davis, 2014;Gavgani et al, 2013), or these actions in conjunction with other means of operationalisation, made up 23 of the articles.…”

“…While the previous analysis did mention the constraining situational factor of accessible information, discussion of web availability through computational devices was not listed as a determining antecedent for HISB. However, in the literature reviewed for this article, many of the studies determined that online access was an important factor in promoting health information seeking (Chang & Im, 2014;Ramasamy et al, 2016). This was examined in two contexts: that of being able to retrieve information from online sources (Mayer et al, 2007;Shahrokni et al, 2015), and also having the expertise and experience to comfortably seek health information in an online context (Baumann et al, 2017;Ybarra & Suman, 2008).…”