Cancer‐Related Channel Selection: A Focus On Women Who Have Had a Mammography¹

Abstract

This study examines the impact of three major classes of factors-triggers, impediments, and demographics-on the.selection within and across four different channels: doctors, friends/family, organizations, and media. A sample of women over 40

Do older adults use the Internet for information on heart attacks? Results from a survey of seniors in King County, Washington

“…Consistent with the literature, direct experience with AMI was an important predictor of information seeking. 19,41 Seniors with a family history were more likely to report searching the web for health information than those without such a history, suggesting that the presence of health problems in one's direct environment may trigger health information seeking from the Internet.…”

“…Among people with access to the Internet, only education was a significant variable in predicting health information seeking from the Internet. Education has been consistently found to be an important predictor for health information seeking from many channels, 19,34,39,41 including the Internet. 23 The results of this survey did not suggest that many of the psychosocial variables were important predictors of health information seeking.…”

Information Women Receive About Heart Attacks and How It Affects Their Knowledge, Beliefs, and Intentions to Act in a Cardiac Emergency

“…We build on research by Johnson, Meischke, and colleagues that has focused on the identi cation and evaluation of information sources of cancerrelated information among adult women (Johnson & Meischke, 1991a, 1991bJohnson, Meischke, Grau, & Johnson, 1992;Johnson & Meischke, 1992a, 1992b, 1992c, 1993a,1993b, 1993c, 1994Meischke & Johnson, 1995). We continue previous research by focusing on three important sources for information on heart attacks: health care providers, friends and family, and mass media (television, newspapers, radio).…”

Information-Seeking in Cancer Survivors: Application of the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to HINTS 2007 Data

“…For the most part, though, these models focus primarily on factors related to the communicator or sender of information without consideration of the motivational antecedents of health information seeking (Johnson & Meischke, 1993a). With cancer survivors increasingly engaging in motivated informationseeking behavior, it is also necessary to consider health information communications from the perspective of the recipient.…”

“…One widely used model that precisely focuses on examining information-seeking behaviors and beliefs from the perspective of the recipient is Johnson's Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS). The CMIS represents a theoretical synthesis of uses and gratification theory (Rubin, 1986), the health belief model (Rosenstock, 1974), and the media exposure and appraisal model (Johnson & Meischke, 1993a, 1993b. The CMIS proposes that the individual's selection of media and information is goal-directed to address a range of questions.…”