eHealth Literacy and Web 2.0 Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Baby Boomers and Older Adults

Tennant, Bethany; Stellefson, Michael; Dodd, Virginia J.; Chaney, Beth H.; Chaney, Don; Paige, Samantha R.; Alber, Julia M.

doi:10.2196/jmir.3992

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“…Several studies showed that the information on this platform was not regulated and contains both high-and low-quality health information. This resulted in misinformation or disinformation for individuals seeking online healthcare information [37][38][39][40][41][42][43].…”

Section: Medical Informationmentioning

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Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

2017

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Abstract:The evolution of Internet from static Web "publishing" to the highly participative, and data-driven, innovations of Web 2.0 has been influencing how people search for health-related information. This review included studies indexed in the PubMed electronic database that focused on social media analysis, examining relationships between participants (patients and healthcare consumers) through social media usage. The obtained results showed that previous research regarding social media's impact on patients and healthcare consumers aimed at a combination of platforms, but there is a penury of information about niche topics or its usage for retrieving medical information. Nevertheless, social media proved to be to be a promising tool in research mainly for recruitment purposes. The review has outlined that eHealth literacy is an attribute for populations that are female and relatively young and educated. Blogs share personal experiences, YouTube contains unregulated, high-and low-quality information that can mislead individuals, Facebook contains more marketing than health-related information, while Wikipedia is recommended for providing high-quality information. Despite healthcare practitioners' and healthcare public institutions' reluctance about the use of social media, this review demonstrates the usefulness of social media for patients and healthcare consumers in retrieving health-related information based on content availability and usage implications, and highlights gaps in knowledge that further research needs to fill.

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Section: Medical Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

2017

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“…In particular, literacy level and computer access among target populations, such as older adults, were issues that hindered implementation. Although, computer access is becoming less of an issue as older adults and agencies serving older adults are increasingly using technology [50]. Another consistent challenge reported across both programs was the time commitment for health educators.…”

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Uptake of evidence-based physical activity programs: comparing perceptions of adopters and nonadopters

Johnson

Harden

Estabrooks

2015

Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res.

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Translating evidence-based physical activity interventions into practice have been problematic. Limited research exists on the adoption decision-making process. This study explored health educator perceptions of two evidence-based, physical activity programs-one was developed through an integrated research-practice partnership approach (FitEx) and the other was research-developed, Active Living Every Day (ALED). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 health educators who were trained on either ALED (n=6) or FitEx (n=6) and had either delivered (n=6) or did not deliver (n=6) the intervention. Program adopters identified with program characteristics, materials, processes, implementation, fit within system, and collaborations as more positive factors in decisionmaking when compared to those that did not deliver. FitEx health educators were more likely to deliver the program and found it to be a better fit and easier to use. An integrated research-practice partnership may improve adoption of physical activity programs in typical practice settings.

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“…Chan and Kaufman also found barriers related to evaluating the trustworthiness and credibility of health information [11,19,20]. On the other hand, the skills associated with media literacy, especially in the context of new media / social media is not well understood [21][22][23]. Science literacy as it pertains to matters of health, has been an area of inquiry in educational research for some time [24].…”

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Evaluating the Quality of Health Information in a Changing Digital Ecosystem (Preprint)

Keselman¹,

Smith²,

Murcko³

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Background: Critical evaluation of online health information has always been central to consumer health informatics. However, with the emergence of new Web media platforms and the ubiquity of social media, the issue has taken on a new dimension and urgency. At the same time, many established existing information quality evaluation guidelines address information characteristics other than the content (e.g., authority, currency), target information creators rather than users as their main audience, or do not address information presented via novel Web technologies. Objective: The objectives of this formative study are to 1) develop a methodological approach for analyzing health-related webpages and 2) apply it to a set of relevant webpages. Methods:The study analyzed twenty-four type 2 diabetes pages which were the results of a Google search with the keywords "diabetes, reversal, natural." The coding scheme, developed via a combination of theory-driven and data-driven approaches, includes five categories from existing guidelines (resource type, information authority, validity of background information sources, objectivity, currency) and seven novel categories (treatment/reversal method, promises and certainty, criticisms of establishment, emotional appeal, vocabulary, rhetoric and presentation, use of science in argumentation). The coding involves both categorical judgement and in-depth narrative characterization. Upon establishing satisfactory level of agreement on the narrative coding, the team coded the complete dataset of twentyfour pages. Results:The results set included "traditional" static pages, videos, and digitized versions of printed newspapers or magazine articles. Treatments proposed by the pages included a mixture of conventional evidence-based treatments (e.g., healthy balanced diet, exercise) and unconventional treatments (e.g., dietary supplements, optimizing gut flora). Most pages either promised or strongly implied high likelihood of complete recovery. Pages varied greatly with respect to the authors' stated background and credentials, as well as the information sources they referenced or mentioned. The majority included criticisms of the traditional healthcare establishment. Many sold commercial products ranging from dietary supplements to books. The pages frequently used colloquial language. A significant number included emotional personal anecdotes, made positive mentions of the word "cure," and included references to nature as a positive healing force. Most pages presented some biological explanations of their proposed treatments. Some of the explanations involved the level of complexity well beyond the level of an educated lay person. Conclusions: Both traditional and data-driven categories of codes used in this work yielded insights about the resources and highlighted challenges faced by their users. This exploratory study underscores the challenges of consumer health information seeking and the importance of developing support tools that would help users seek, evaluate, and analyz...

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eHealth Literacy and Web 2.0 Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Baby Boomers and Older Adults

Cited by 621 publications

References 55 publications

Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

Uptake of evidence-based physical activity programs: comparing perceptions of adopters and nonadopters

Evaluating the Quality of Health Information in a Changing Digital Ecosystem (Preprint)

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