Explaining online health information seeking of foreign domestic workers: a test of the comprehensive model of information seeking

Bernadas, Jan Michael Alexandre C.; Jiang, Li

doi:10.1007/s12553-018-0251-5

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“…Comprehensive model of information seeking (CMIS) has been widely used to investigate factors determining individuals’ information seeking behavior [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. Bernadas and Jiang [ 28 ] adopted CMIS and tested it in the online health context. They validated that trustworthiness and tailorability of channels could positively influence online HISB.…”

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“…Governments and health organizations may establish authoritative evaluation platforms to guarantee the quality of the information [ 9 ]. Online health information also needs to be delivered through proper media channels and platforms to fit health information consumers’ media utility patterns [ 28 ].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This systematic literature review with integrated findings offers us a whole picture regarding the general characteristics of online HISB, factors affecting online HISB, and what governments, health organizations, and social media platforms should do to provide better services to health information consumers. Methodologically, a majority of the studies reviewed are quantitative and were conducted using a survey with a self-report style [ 5 , 11 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 35 ]. Data collected through self-report may not represent the genuine situation, thinking, or behavior of some health information consumers.…”

Section: Discussion Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The subjects of most studies reviewed are general adults [ 4 , 11 , 24 , 25 , 30 , 31 , 35 ]. Participants also include university students [ 5 , 32 ], trans or nonbinary adults [ 24 ], foreign workers [ 28 ], reproductive-age women [ 21 ] and mothers [ 27 ], and patients with chronic disease [ 22 ]. Still, some specific and relevant groups of the population have not been involved in online HISB, such as children and adolescents, mental health patients, teachers, health educators, health workers and professionals, and disabled users.…”

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Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

2021

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The last five years have seen a leap in the development of information technology and social media. Seeking health information online has become popular. It has been widely accepted that online health information seeking behavior has a positive impact on health information consumers. Due to its importance, online health information seeking behavior has been investigated from different aspects. However, there is lacking a systematic review that can integrate the findings of the most recent research work in online health information seeking, and provide guidance to governments, health organizations, and social media platforms on how to support and promote this seeking behavior, and improve the services of online health information access and provision. We therefore conduct this systematic review. The Google Scholar database was searched for existing research on online health information seeking behavior between 2016 and 2021 to obtain the most recent findings. Within the 97 papers searched, 20 met our inclusion criteria. Through a systematic review, this paper identifies general behavioral patterns, and influencing factors such as age, gender, income, employment status, literacy (or education) level, country of origin and places of residence, and caregiving role. Facilitators (i.e., the existence of online communities, the privacy feature, real-time interaction, and archived health information format), and barriers (i.e., low health literacy, limited accessibility and information retrieval skills, low reliable, deficient and elusive health information, platform censorship, and lack of misinformation checks) to online health information seeking behavior are also discovered.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussion Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussion Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

2021

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“…It must be noted that health-related media habits of foreign household service workers are purposeful and discerning. Purposeful in a way that FHSWs put emphasis on trustworthiness and utility of health information sources (Bernadas & Jiang, 2016, 2019). Their health-related media habits are discerning since foreign household service workers were also found to be wary of fake news (Oktavianus & Lin, 2023; Piocos et al, 2021).…”

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Community organizations and ethnic media working with foreign household service workers: Applying communication infrastructure theory to migrant health

Bernadas

Piocos

Vilog

2023

Communication and the Public

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Informed by Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), this article explores the ways community organizations and ethnic media serve as communicative resources and form into storytelling networks with different health-enhancing purposes for Filipina household service workers (FHSWs) in Hong Kong (HK). Using key informant interviews with print and broadcast media, non-governmental organizations, and faith-based organizations in HK, it found that cancer, stroke, and depression were shared concerns among FHSWs. Community organizations and ethnic media explained these concerns based on work and labor conditions. As communicative resources, they provided health information, offered tangible support, and campaigned to employers and governments. In discussing social media for health, community organizations highlighted accessibility, whereas ethnic media focused on journalistic practices. Overall, this article highlights ethnic media and community organizations as key but often overlooked publics in health communication and the importance of further incorporating temporality in CIT-informed research for migrant health. Implications to public health campaigns and health reporting are discussed.

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Antecedents predicting health information seeking: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Chang

Huang

2020

International Journal of Information Management

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Explaining online health information seeking of foreign domestic workers: a test of the comprehensive model of information seeking

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

Community organizations and ethnic media working with foreign household service workers: Applying communication infrastructure theory to migrant health

Antecedents predicting health information seeking: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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