Medicine information needs of patients: the relationships between information needs, diagnosis and disease

Abstract

These findings suggest that the diagnosis and disease have a significant bearing on patients' medicine-information desires and recommend that healthcare professionals view patients as individuals when providing information that meets their needs. It will be important for healthcare professionals to identify and understand that patients with different diseases have different desires for information about their disease and their drugs which may influence the way they take their medicines and subsequently the ways we manage their long-term disease. We need to determine if the EID scale is an efficient and effective way to identify patients' desires for drug information and a useful tool for practitioners to effectively target interventions in healthcare provision over time.

Survey on the use of health consultation services provided in a Japanese urban public housing area with a high elderly population

“…First of all, elderly residents who were in need of medical treatment, such as outpatients of internal medicine/cancer, or those with a low sense of well‐being, are more likely to seek out health consultation services. This relationship confirms findings of previous studies; that is, patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes and endocrine‐related disorders, require more information than patients with respiratory/cardiovascular diseases, cancer patients require more information before and after the treatment and individuals with low sense of well‐being require more information . Second, individuals who have family‐related stress are also more likely to seek health consultation services.…”

Race, Ethnicity, Language, Social Class, and Health Communication Inequalities: A Nationally-Representative Cross-Sectional Study

“…Health information seeking is a measure of how actively people look for health information [12]. This is a highly valued skill in the current consumer-driven health approach where people are expected to participate in decisions about their health, and information is a necessary resource in making those decisions [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]. While it is commonly assumed that those affected by major diseases actively seek information, there is potential for disparities in information seeking among people of different socioeconomic position [18]…”

Associations of Self-rated Health and Socioeconomic Status with Information Seeking and Avoiding Behavior among Post-Treatment Cancer Patients

“…SES difference included income (Ramanadhan and Viswanath, 2006), education (Rutten et al, 2006;Mayer et al, 2007;Duggan and Bates, 2008), and ethnic/racial groups (Levinson et al, 2005;Rutten et al, 2006;Mayer et al, 2007) in the HISB group. Sociodemographic antecedents (SDA) such as gender and age are important, with men and younger-age subjects more likely to engage in information seeking behavior than women and older subjects (Rutten et al, 2006;Mayer et al, 2007;Vanderpool et al, 2009;Viswanath et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2013).…”