Exploring Digital Health Use and Opinions of University Students: Field Survey Study

Montagni, Ilaria; Cariou, Tanguy; Feuillet, Tiphaine; Langlois, Èmmanuel; Tzourio, Christophe

doi:10.2196/mhealth.9131

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“…Our findings contribute to and extend previous research on women’s use of online health information sources in developed countries by focusing on more detail on how they access and use their sources in relation to medical consultations. Regardless of their age or education level, our participants were even more highly engaged in seeking health information online compared with the participants in studies based in the USA [ 10 , 11 , 22 – 24 ], the European Union, Germany [ 12 ] and France [ 13 ]. This finding may be partly due to the very high use of the internet and smartphones by Australians more generally compared with other populations [ 41 ].…”

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“…Previous research has shown that women across a range of age groups engage more highly than men with online health information sources in countries such as the United States of America (USA) [ 10 , 11 ], Germany [ 12 ], France [ 13 ] and member states of the European Union [ 14 ]. The importance these sources play for pregnant women or those in the early years of motherhood has been the greatest focus of more detailed research on women’s engagements.…”

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“You can explore it more online”: a qualitative study on Australian women’s use of online health and medical information

Maslen

Lupton

2018

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundPrevious research has demonstrated the importance of search engines, websites, online discussion groups and social media groups for women in developed countries looking for health and medical information, but few studies have focused on Australian women. The Australian Women and Digital Health Project was designed to investigate how Australian women from a range of age groups and locations used digital health technologies across the full spectrum available to them. The findings on their use of online information and decision-making in relation to seeking face-to-face medical advice are discussed in this article.MethodsQualitative research, including focus group discussions (24 participants) and face-to-face (12 participants) and telephone (30 participants) semi-structured interviews was conducted with a total of 66 Australian women aged between 21 and 74. The focus groups and interviews were transcribed and analysed using inductive thematic analysis sensitised by a feminist new materialism theoretical standpoint. This involved identifying the dimensions of affordances, relational connections, affective forces and agential capacities in the women’s accounts.ResultsAll participants regularly used online sources to find health information, advice and support. We identified six key agential capacities relating to these ways in which the women enacted online health information seeking: 1) self-screening; 2) preparing for and following up a consultation; 3) selective engagement; 4) caring for others; 5) creating and sharing new information; and 6) challenging medical authority. The affordances of accessibility and convenience of online sources, relational connections between women and trusted sources (both online and offline) and between women and family members on whose behalf they sought information and affective forces such as trust, the need for reassurance and frustration and anger with deficient healthcare services contributed to these capacities.ConclusionsWomen engaged in complex interactions with online information, actively and creatively using it in diverse ways in their negotiations with seeking face-to-face medical expertise. Their online practices generated a set of agential capacities that help them to assess whether they or their family members need medical attention, supplement or challenge the medical advice they have already received or generate and share their own information.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12913-018-3749-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“You can explore it more online”: a qualitative study on Australian women’s use of online health and medical information

Maslen

Lupton

2018

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…Percentage of patients with SLE reporting each medication within 30 days of PLM registration. PLM PatientsLikeMe, SLE systemic lupus erythematosus women are more likely than men to seek health information from the Internet[24][25][26]. Approximately 95% of the patients with SLE who reported a country of residence live in the United States.…”

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Characteristics and Symptom Severity of Patients Reporting Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the PatientsLikeMe Online Health Community: A Retrospective Observational Study

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Introduction: Online health communities and research networks such as PatientsLikeMe (PLM) capture patient perspectives of diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We performed a retrospective observational study of data provided by patients in the PLM SLE community to characterize demographics, clinical characteristics, patient experience, and symptom impact. Methods: Adults who registered with PLM in 2011-2017 and reported SLE diagnosis and treatment with one or more SLE-related drug (antimalarials, immunosuppressives, corticosteroids, calcineurin inhibitors, or biologics) were included in the analysis. Information reported within 30 days from PLM registration was used to assess patient eligibility; demographics and clinical characteristics; and primary outcome measures of SLE treatments, symptoms, primary lupus manifestations, and comorbidities. Results: Among 21,101 PLM members included in this analysis, median ages at registration, onset of SLE symptoms, and SLE diagnosis were 46 years (interquartile range [IQR] 38-53, n = 21,101), 30 years (IQR 21-39; n = 6489), and 36 years (IQR 27-44; n = 6936), respectively. Most patients were female (96.8%, n = 20,370). Country of residence was reported by 19,502 patients (92.4%), of whom 18,491 (94.8%) were US residents. Race was recorded by 17,994 patients (85.3%), of whom 67.8% were white and 22.4% were black/African American. Patients reported a mean of 2.2 SLErelated medications, including antimalarials (83.8%), corticosteroids (78.8%), immunosuppressives (32.3%), and biologics (9.4%). Fatigue, pain, and joint pain were rated as moderate or severe by at least 80% of patients who reported these symptoms. Reported primary lupus manifestations and comorbidities included Enhanced Digital Features To view enhanced digital features for this article go to https://doi.org/10.6084/ m9.figshare.11591982.

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“…As today's leading medium, the internet offers great potential and wide reach for health promotion [1,2]. Especially among younger target groups, it is already established as a primary source of health information [3][4][5].…”

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Engagement with a Web-Based Health Promotion Intervention among Vocational School Students: A Secondary User and Usage Analysis

Stassen

Grieben

Froböse

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Engagement with web-based interventions is both generally low and typically declining. Visits and revisits remain a challenge. Based on log data of a web-based cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in vocational schools, the present secondary analysis aimed to identify influencing factors on initially logging in to a health promotion platform among young adults and to examine the engagement over the course of an eight-week intervention. Data of 336 students (62.2% female, age span 18–25) from two intervention arms (web-based intervention and web-based intervention with an additional initial face-to-face contact) was included. Binary logistic regression and log-data visualization were performed. An additional initial face-to-face contact (odds ratio (OR) = 2.971, p = 0.005), female sex (OR = 2.237, p = 0.046) and the health-related skill “dealing with health information” (OR = 2.179, p = 0.030) significantly increased the likelihood of initially logging in. Other variables showed no influence. 16.6% of all potential users logged in at least once, of which 57.4% revisited the platform. Most logins were tracked at the beginning of the intervention and repeated engagement was low. To increase the engagement with web-based interventions, health-related skills should be fostered. In addition, a strategy could be to interlink comparable interventions in vocational schools more regularly with everyday teaching through multi-component interventions.

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Exploring Digital Health Use and Opinions of University Students: Field Survey Study

Cited by 93 publications

References 37 publications

“You can explore it more online”: a qualitative study on Australian women’s use of online health and medical information

“You can explore it more online”: a qualitative study on Australian women’s use of online health and medical information

Characteristics and Symptom Severity of Patients Reporting Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the PatientsLikeMe Online Health Community: A Retrospective Observational Study

Engagement with a Web-Based Health Promotion Intervention among Vocational School Students: A Secondary User and Usage Analysis

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