Online Health Information Seeking Behavior Pattern

Maon, Siti Noorsuriani; Hassan, Naffisah Mohd; Seman, Sharidatul Akma Abu

doi:10.1166/asl.2017.10107

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“…Online health information seeking has been explored from different perspectives. Overall, according to the reviewed literature, a large majority of the health information consumers thought online health information was important, and online HISB had a positive influence on their health [ 4 , 5 ]. Seventy-five percent of the health information consumers believed the obtained online health information had either a minor or major impact on them (or their families and friends) in their health treatment decision making, overall health maintaining approach, and the way the health information consumers thought about health-related issues [ 4 ].…”

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“…Regarding the frequency of online HISB, over 60% of the health information consumers sought at least on a weekly basis [ 4 ]. In particular, more than a quarter of the health information consumers even searched online health information several times a day [ 4 ]. It is also found that the frequency of Internet use could affect online HISB.…”

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“…According to our review, 83% of the health information consumers searched health information using a general search engine, such as Google and Yahoo, while 15% of the online seekers tended to search on specific health information websites [ 4 ]. Social media were more likely to be searched and used to address stress-related issues [ 21 ].…”

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“…With the proliferation of information and communication technology, utilizing the Internet to seek health information becomes a prevalent behavior [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]). Recently, seeking health information online has become a preferred way due to its availability and coverage of information, the convenience of searching, affordability of access, interactivity and anonymity [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ].…”

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“…Online health information seeking behavior is thought to have a positive influence on health information consumers since they are more likely to better adhere to treatment after obtaining adequate information of their health conditions [ 4 , 5 , 17 ]. Hence, understanding online HISB is becoming increasingly important.…”

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Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

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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

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%