How College Students Search the Internet for Weight Control and Weight Management Information: An Observational Study

Senkowski, Valerie; Branscum, Paul

doi:10.1080/19325037.2015.1044139

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“…However, the students participating in the study were not able to tell 'good' from 'bad' sites. Senkowski and Branscum (2015) also found that students were eager to trust health information that confirmed their personal beliefs. However, Burger et al (2015) found that training students on a health issue improved their credibility judgments.…”

Section: Psychological Factorsmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Banas, 2008;Borzekowski & Rickert, 2001;Douglas et al, 2004;Ghaddar et al, 2012;Hong, 2006;Ivanitskaya et al, 2006;Jiménez-Pernett et al, 2010;Johnson et al, 2015;;S. H. Lim & Kim, 2012;McKinley & Ruppel, 2014;Mou & Cohen, 2014;Neal et al, 2011;Nustad et al, 2008;Oh & Kim, 2014;Payton et al, 2014;Percheski & Hargittai, 2011;Rowley et al, 2015;Scott et al, 2008;Selkie et al, 2011;Senkowski & Branscum, 2015;Skinner et al, 2003;Smart et al, 2012;Tsan & Day, 2007;Van Velsen et al, 2012 Credibility and reliability of information (content or message), information sources, information providers or websites. Bansal & Gefen, 2010;Batten & Dutton, 2011;Catellier & Yang, 2012;Cho et al, 2015;Dutta-Bergman, 2004;Eastin, 2001;Escoffery et al, 2005;Freeman & Spyridakis, 2004;Gray et al, 2005;Hansen et al, 2003;Henderson et al, 2009;Horgan & Sweeney, 2010;Hu & Sundar, 2010;…”

Section: Table 1 Researchers' Notions Of Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Information seeking strategies Smart et al (2012) found that the information seeking strategies of students were dependent to three variables: the features of online health content; the quality of communication between consumer and information provider; and, the favored learning style of students. Regular search engines, particularly Google, were the most utilized tools or first options when searching online health information (Buhi et al, 2009;Escoffery et al, 2005;Hansen et al, 2003;Jiménez-Pernett et al, 2010;Neal et al, 2011;Scott et al, 2008;Senkowski & Branscum, 2015). According to a fairly comprehensive study by Jiménez-Pernett et al 2010, about 98 percent of the participants (n=811) obtained their health information through a search engine, mainly Google.…”

Section: Students' Source Preferences and Information Seeking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Obstacles reported were for instance 'lack of knowledge of good health web pages', and 'lack of confidence or search skills', (Jiménez-Pernett et al, 2010). However, even in cases when students were aware of other online health information sources, they used Google to perform a majority (93.3%) of search scenarios (Senkowski & Branscum, 2015). Findings also showed a rather superficial search procedure; a majority of the subjects did just click on one of first 3 retrieved results and did not even browse the next google results page (Buhi et al, 2009;Senkowski & Branscum, 2015).…”

Section: Students' Source Preferences and Information Seeking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, even in cases when students were aware of other online health information sources, they used Google to perform a majority (93.3%) of search scenarios (Senkowski & Branscum, 2015). Findings also showed a rather superficial search procedure; a majority of the subjects did just click on one of first 3 retrieved results and did not even browse the next google results page (Buhi et al, 2009;Senkowski & Branscum, 2015). Students used the search engine's site description as the key to identify the relevance of site to the required information about a health topic (Kim et al, 2011), and according to Hansen et al (2003) little attention was paid to the source of provided information.…”

Section: Students' Source Preferences and Information Seeking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Students’ Trust Formation and Credibility Judgements in Online Health Information – A Review Article

Khosrowjerdi¹,

Sundqvist²

2017

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Health information is a frequent subject for online information seeking. Research on the phenomenon has to a certain extent included students. This review, based on an analysis of 61 articles, shows the current state of the art of research on students' trust in online health information. The review covers methodological approaches and findings of previous previous empirical studies: research design; trustworthy health information sources; credibility assessment; and factors impacting on trust formation. The analysis of research designs reveals that the survey method was most frequent, but small qualitative studies were also occurring. More than half of the studies were administered in the USA, while only a smaller part concerned 'non-Western' countries. Female subjects were more frequent than male. The concept of trust was not always explicitly defined in the studies. The students' actual propensity to use internet was generally taken as an expression of trust. The antecedents of trust identified in the studies can be summarized as the perceived quality of the information, the perceived credibility of the source or source provider, the users' general inclination to trust, the actual use of information, and the perceived intelligibility of the information. The findings show that Internet was among the main sources for health information, but parents or other family members, friends, schools, health professionals were also frequent sources of health information, and students were not immediately accepting online information as trustworthy. The students' trust and credibility judgments were influenced by social and demographic, cultural, psychological, knowledge and skills-related, and source, system and content-related factors. Governmental and organizational websites were reported as the most trustful sources, although some issues regarding website features and presentation of content were reported as barriers. Easy access were of importance for using a particular resource, but there seemed to be a learning effect impacting on seeking behaviour and trust formation.

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Section: Psychological Factorsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Section: Table 1 Researchers' Notions Of Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Students' Source Preferences and Information Seeking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Students' Source Preferences and Information Seeking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Students' Source Preferences and Information Seeking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Students’ Trust Formation and Credibility Judgements in Online Health Information – A Review Article

Khosrowjerdi¹,

Sundqvist²

2017

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Young Adults' Online Sexual Health Information Seeking and Evaluating Skills: Implications for Everyday Life Information Literacy Instruction

Behre

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Many young adults (particularly LGBTQ+ young people) often do not receive relevant sexual health information in school‐based health education classes, leaving them with unmet information needs, which they largely go online in order to fulfill. Meanwhile, information literacy instruction is almost exclusively provided to young adults within an academic context; thus, the knowledge and skills they learn may not be easily adapted to everyday life contexts, including health. In order to learn more about this potential mismatch and to identify potential ways in which we might improve information literacy instruction for this population, I conducted an online survey incorporating LGBTQ+ inclusive language. The results suggest that the most popular online health information evaluation strategies amongst young adults may be unreliable and, while this population may understand more reliable methods, they appear to struggle to apply these “academic” information evaluation skills to their everyday life information seeking, thus suggesting the need for improved and updated information literacy instruction that is more broadly applicable to people's everyday life information needs.

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Effect of Online Weight Loss Advertising in Young Women with Body Dissatisfaction: An Experimental Protocol Using Eye-Tracking and Facial Electromyography

Almenara

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Maïano

2020

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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How College Students Search the Internet for Weight Control and Weight Management Information: An Observational Study

Cited by 26 publications

References 23 publications

Students’ Trust Formation and Credibility Judgements in Online Health Information – A Review Article

Students’ Trust Formation and Credibility Judgements in Online Health Information – A Review Article

Young Adults' Online Sexual Health Information Seeking and Evaluating Skills: Implications for Everyday Life Information Literacy Instruction

Effect of Online Weight Loss Advertising in Young Women with Body Dissatisfaction: An Experimental Protocol Using Eye-Tracking and Facial Electromyography

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