Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Students at Kuwait University

Aldousari, Elham; Al-Muomen, Nujoud

doi:10.1080/10572317.2020.1849913

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“…18.4% still need help finding out health information on the internet. This is also reinforced by the findings in Elham's study, which revealed that students thought that medical information available on the internet was inaccurate [19]. Perceptions about the inaccuracy of health information on the Internet will lead to apathy toward health information available on the Internet.…”

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Digital Health Literacy Competencies of Students in Faculty of Health Science

Haikal

Rachmani²,

Nugroho³

et al. 2023

Dis.Prev.Public Heal J.

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Background: Students are the most significant internet users in Indonesia. 49.52% of internet user groups in Indonesia are students. High internet users do not guarantee that digital health literacy is also high. Students at the Universitas Dian Nuswantoro health faculty are responsible for disseminating health information and transmitting digital health literacy interests. Health literacy skills are necessary for health students to sort out doubtful information. Good health literacy skills will impact students' ability to assess incoming data and make appropriate health decisions. This study aims to describe the digital health literacy skills possessed by students of the Faculty of Health. Universitas Dian Nuswantoro. Method: This descriptive study provides an overview/description of the digital health literacy skills possessed by students of the Faculty of Health. Universitas Dian Nuswantoro. The research population of health students is 1.642 people with the sample being 321 students. Data collection using Google Forms and distributed through class groups in WhatsApp (WA) and communicated privately. The statistical test used descriptive statistical analysis. Results: Faculty of Health Science at Universitas Dian Nuswantoro students had an "Advanced" or "Independent-Advanced" level of competence. The advanced level indicates that their digital competencies and health information skills are at their current status and without problems. Indicators that digital health literacy can improve our safety. Thus. students can improve methods for securing personal data. Conclusion: Digital health literacy is an ability needed in today's digital era. What needs to be improved is that students can choose the most appropriate method to protect personal data.

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Digital Health Literacy Competencies of Students in Faculty of Health Science

Haikal

Rachmani²,

Nugroho³

et al. 2023

Dis.Prev.Public Heal J.

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“…Health education in schools is fundamental to fostering health literacy among citizens (30,31). Both insufficient medication literacy and health literacy in school students and the subjective demand for health information suggest the urgent need for health education (12,(32)(33)(34). Moreover, health education oriented toward improving health literacy and medication literacy will better meet the needs of college students, which was applied to medication education in Taiwan and proved to be effective (35).…”

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confidence: 99%

Relationship Between Medication Literacy, Health Literacy, and Medication Behavior Among Medical School Students: A Cross-sectional Study

Wang

Feng

et al. 2023

J Educ Community Health

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Background: Nowadays, college students are more accessible and susceptible to being exposed to mixed information than ever, which results in a growing concern about their health problems and medication behaviors. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between medication literacy, health literacy, and medication behavior among medical school students. Methods: A cluster random sampling method was used to select 1324 undergraduate students from a medical school in China as participants for the questionnaire survey in 2020. After quality control, 1183 valid questionnaires were collected (an effective rate of 89.4%). Descriptive statistics analysis, chi-square test, binary logistic regression analysis, and path analysis were conducted using SPSS 25.0. Results: Of the 1183 respondents whose mean age was 19.06, 164 (13.9%) were considered to have good medication literacy, 150 (12.7%) had good health literacy, and 497(42.0%) exhibited good medication behaviors. Lower grades, higher health literacy levels, and higher medication literacy levels were effective in better performance on medication use behavior (P<0.001). Poor self-assessment of health status was correlated with worse medication behavior (P<0.05). it was concluded that medication literacy may be an intermediate variable linking health literacy and medication use behavior. Conclusion: Students in the medical college showed much higher rates of rational medication use when they have medication and health literacy. There was an indirect positive relationship between health literacy and medication behavior through medication literacy (P<0.001). Therefore, health literacy and medication literacy can be an essential part of medication safety education for college students as well as an ideal indicator for educational outcome evaluation.

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“…Information-seeking behavior is how individuals' methods are used when searching for information (Alenezi&Brinthaupt, 2022). Studies have shown that information-seeking behavior entails a specific purpose because of accomplishing assignments, workshops, and seminars, preparing for class discussions and conducting research projects for the final year (Aldousari & Al-Muomen, 2022). Information-seeking behaviors are expressed in several ways, from experimentation to reading printed materials (McGowan, 2019).…”

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Investigating the Information-seeking Behavior of Undergraduate Students Who Utilize Kuwait Academic Library Database

Alazemi

2023

IJAEMR

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Information seeking is a process that involves searching, need identification, presenting, extracting, filtering, and selecting information. Therefore, for information-seeking behavior to be effective, users need to follow this procedure of accessibility of materials, and sources of knowledge, accurately filter information, extract the required information, and present quality and appropriate information. Evaluating information-seeking behavior among undergraduate students is critical in supporting their use and access to information sources to attain their information needs. The research focuses on undergraduate students' methods when searching for information resources in the Kuwait academic library database. Therefore, this research aims to help undergraduate students at Kuwait University improve their information-seeking behavior and ensure they find the most appropriate information when accessing the library database.

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Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Students at Kuwait University

Cited by 5 publications

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Digital Health Literacy Competencies of Students in Faculty of Health Science

Digital Health Literacy Competencies of Students in Faculty of Health Science

Relationship Between Medication Literacy, Health Literacy, and Medication Behavior Among Medical School Students: A Cross-sectional Study

Investigating the Information-seeking Behavior of Undergraduate Students Who Utilize Kuwait Academic Library Database

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