Chinese Older Adults’ Internet Use for Health Information

Wong, Carmen; Yeung, Dannii Y.; Ho, Hui-Chen; Tse, Kin-Po; Lam, Chun-Yiu

doi:10.1177/0733464812463430

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“…Furthermore, Lee & Chang [35] revealed that PEOU is significantly correlated with attitude or intention through PU. Wong et al [36] also indicated that PEOU is positively correlated with behavioral intention to use the Internet for health-related Information. Yun and Park [37] explored that attitude towards using the Internet for pursuing disease information had a positive influence on the intention to use this technology for pursuing disease information.…”

Section: Research Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling the adoption of personal health record (PHR) among individual: the effect of health-care technology self-efficacy and gender concern

Dutta

Peng

Sun

2018

Libyan Journal of Medicine

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Background: With the development of information technology (IT) and medical technology, medical information has been developed from traditional paper-based records into up-to-date medical information exchange system called personal health record (PHR). Empowering PHR provides health awareness and intention for health promotion.Objective: The purpose of this study was to present a research framework to examine individuals’ intention to PHR use.Methods: This cross-sectional study used the questionnaire to collect data from the individual in Taiwan. Individual’s intention to use PHR has been examined by a framework based on extended technology acceptance model (TAM), with gender and health-care technology self-efficacy (HTSE) as external variables. Additionally, gender differences were explored in perceptions and relationships among factors influencing an individual’s intention to PHR use. The research framework was evaluated by structural equation modeling (SEM) and represented by Analysis of a Moment Structures (AMOS).Results: A total of 234 valid responses were used for analysis. The results suggest that the extended TAM model explains 40.6% of the variance of intention to PHR use (R2 = 0.406). The findings also supported that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and attitude toward using PHR significantly influenced individual’s intention to PHR use. Additionally, results also indicated that women were more strongly influenced by perceptions of HTSE.Conclusions: The extended TAM model contributes reasonable explanation for interprets and anticipates of individuals’ intention to use and adopt PHR. Moreover, the results have provided support for HTSE and gender as significant variables in TAM. However, the study identified three relevant factors directly and one factor indirectly influencing on individuals’ intention to PHR use. Thus, health care providers and hospital authorities must take these factors and gender difference into consideration in the development and validation of the theories regarding the acceptance of PHR. Based on the findings, the theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Section: Research Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling the adoption of personal health record (PHR) among individual: the effect of health-care technology self-efficacy and gender concern

Dutta

Peng

Sun

2018

Libyan Journal of Medicine

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“…The quality of the information provided on health sites is critical. [15] When the ideas of the patients about the information they gathered from internet sources were investigated, 31% of them reported that this information was impressive, 27% of them said they found it confusing, and 76% reported that it was contradictory. When they were asked about the reliability of the information, 60.7% of them responded that it was partially reliable, 23.9% said it was reliable, and 4.3% of them replied that it was not credible.…”

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Preoperative Evaluation of Internet Usage Characteristics of Patients in an Anesthesiology Clinic: A Survey of 1000 Patients

Çevik¹

2018

South Clin Ist Euras

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Objective: This study was conducted to provide data about current preferences about internet use to obtain information about anesthesiology in patients undergoing elective surgical operations at a tertiary hospital. Methods:After receiving institutional ethics committee approval, 1000 consecutive patients presenting at the Anesthesiology Clinic were interviewed using a questionnaire as a part of their preoperative clinic visit before an elective surgical procedure. Informed consent was obtained from all of the participants. Statistical analysis of all of the completed questionnaires was performed using NCSS statistical software (NCSS, LLC, Kaysville, UT, USA). A chi-square test was used to evaluate categorical variables and a t-test was applied to assess continuous variables. Statistical significance was accepted at p<0.05. Results:Of 1000 patients, 659 (65.9%) reported routine use of the internet; 559 (55.9%) of these users were able to get the necessary healthcare information from the internet. In all, 636 patients (63.6%) searched for "anesthesia," 387 (38.7%) searched for "general anesthesia," 245 (24.5%) searched for "spinal anesthesia," 130 (13%) for "epidural anesthesia," 589 (58.9%) for "anesthesia-related complications," 498 (49.8%) for "anesthesia-related deaths" and 331 (33.1%) for "other medical subjects." The remaining 364 patients (36.4%) responded that they did not search for any subject related to anesthesia on the internet. Conclusion:Actual, evidence-based knowledge should be made available on the internet sites of health institutions to provide correct, understandable, and reliable information for the patients and their relatives. Preoperative information about the anesthesiology procedures and possible complications helps them to cope with anxiety due to uncertainty and lack of information.

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“…The internet could be used for health education if users are directed to reliable sources [60]. The internet provides anonymised information and facilitates privacy and control over the information sought, which is important to many men [61,62].…”

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Promoting men’s knowledge of cancer risk reduction: A systematic review of interventions

Reidy

Saab

Hegarty

et al. 2018

Patient Education and Counseling

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Access to the full text of the published version may require a subscription. Rights A B S T R A C TObjective: To critically appraise and discuss evidence from interventions designed to increase men's knowledge about cancer risk reduction. Methods: A systematic review was conducted. Six electronic databases were searched for interventions published between January 1st 2006 and May 30th 2016 in English. Studies were included if they used an experimental design, included adult males (!18 years), and had a primary focus on the acquisition and utilisation of information on cancer risk reduction. The methodological quality of the included studies was appraised.Results: A total of 25 studies met the inclusion criteria, 23 of which involved prostate cancer risk reduction. Twenty-one studies reported knowledge gain among the men. Three studies found that knowledge gain was associated with health literacy. Conclusions: Interventions aiming to improve men's knowledge about cancer risk reduction require a multimodal approach. Findings highlight the need to design and measure the impact of interventions for men on wider cancer risk reduction topics, while accounting for different socio-demographic and ethnic groups, literacy and health literacy levels. Practice implications: More research is warranted into the development and evaluation of theoreticallydriven multimodal community-based approaches to information dissemination for men taking into account their daily information spheres such as workplaces and community environs.

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Chinese Older Adults’ Internet Use for Health Information

Cited by 107 publications

References 61 publications

Modeling the adoption of personal health record (PHR) among individual: the effect of health-care technology self-efficacy and gender concern

Modeling the adoption of personal health record (PHR) among individual: the effect of health-care technology self-efficacy and gender concern

Preoperative Evaluation of Internet Usage Characteristics of Patients in an Anesthesiology Clinic: A Survey of 1000 Patients

Promoting men’s knowledge of cancer risk reduction: A systematic review of interventions

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