National culture and trust in online health information

Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood

doi:10.1177/0961000619836716

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“…It appeared as a universal promotor of HISB regardless of media type and topic of information. However, health information trust is too narrow compared with trust measures used in social capital studies and it is determined by national culture [ 87 ]. Therefore, we call for future studies which apply trust measures originated from social capital realm and based on different culture contexts to better understand the impact of trust.…”

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Social capital and health information seeking in China

Chang

Gao

et al. 2022

BMC Public Health

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Background People’s potentials to seek health information can be affected by their social context, such as their social networks and the resources provided through those social networks. In the past decades, the concept of social capital has been widely used in the health realm to indicate people’s social context. However, not many such studies were conducted in China. Chinese society has its special quality that many Western societies lack: people traditionally render strong value to family relations and rely heavily on strong social ties in their social life. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the association between different types of social capital and health information-seeking behavior (HISB) in the Chinese context. The different types of social capital were primarily bonding and bridging, as well as cognitive and structural ones. Methods Our analysis is based on a total of 3090 cases taken from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) – China, 2017. Dataset was weighted due to the overrepresentation of female respondents and hierarchical multiple regression analyses as well as binary logistic regression tests were operated to examine the associations between people’s social capital and their HISB. Results Some aspects of social capital emerged as positive predictors of HISB: information support (standing in for the cognitive component of social capital) promoted health information seeking, organization memberships (standing in for the structural component) encouraged cancer information seeking, and both the use of the internet and of traditional media for gaining health information were positively linked with bridging networks and organization memberships. Bonding networks (structural component) were not correlated with any other of the key variables and emotional support (cognitive social capital) was consistently associated with all health information-seeking indicators negatively. Conclusions Social capital demonstrated significant and complex relationships with HISB in China. Structural social capital generally encouraged HISB in China, especially the bridging aspects including bridging networks and organization memberships. On the other hand, emotional support as cognitive social capital damaged people’s initiatives in seeking health-related information.

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Social capital and health information seeking in China

Chang

Gao

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BMC Public Health

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“…Culture may be an important factor in health communication involving risk. Different cultures put weight on different factors when making decisions about trust and credibility of information (Khosrowjerdi, 2019). One study comparing Koreans, Hongkongers and Americans showed that while trust in scientific authorities was consistent across all groups, Koreans and Hongkongers put more trust in experience-based health information (i.e.…”

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Effective ways to combat online medical and scientific misinformation: A hermeneutic narrative review and analysis

Scales¹,

Gorman²,

Leff³

et al. 2021

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Scientific and medical misinformation is proliferating and undermining public health efforts. To promote changes in behavior more in line with scientific consensus it is urgent that we understand the most effective ways to combat online misinformation. In this review, we undertook a hermeneutic narrative framework to iteratively examine the evidence for different ways to combat medical and scientific misinformation online. After reviewing common descriptions and definitions along the spectrum of misinformation, we examine the mostly regulatory and technological efforts to constrain the supply/distribution of misinformation. Next, we describe research focused on the information consumer, including inoculation, warnings and efforts to promote critical thinking and media literacy. Next, in examining the vast literature on debunking, refutations and rebuttals, we note the myriad factors that affect the persistence or displacement of information after a corrective message, including the topic, framing, source, audience and overall context in which the message is received. We note that each of these methods to combat misinformation online has had success in particular contexts and support efforts suggesting multipronged solutions. Finally, we discuss how the complex nature of the misinformation problem poses challenges to reductionist empirical studies. We suggest some alternative frameworks drawing from complex problems in medicine and public health research.

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“…Health information (Chu et al, 2018; Gao et al, 2015; Huntington et al, 2007; Jung et al, 2016; Khosrowjerdi, 2019; Kim et al, 1999; Liew, 2011; Yang and Beatty, 2016);…”

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“…Most of the studies employed computational and quantitative approaches (e.g. Chu et al, 2018; Gao et al, 2015; Khosrowjerdi, 2019; Mansour, 2018; Shen et al, 2019; Sohn and Choi, 2019), applied qualitative methods (e.g. Cader, 2013; Madden et al, 2012; O’Reilly and Marx, 2011) or mixed methods (e.g.…”

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“…Additionally, Madden et al (2012) studied a variety of metacognitive levels regarding how volunteers evaluate the websites. In addition, Khosrowjerdi (2019) suggests that the differences in the effect of national culture on credibility and trust formation in online health information, along with information verification are the common antecedents of trust between the cultures. In another study, Mansour (2018) presented that the credibility of the news source and the quality of information sources are slightly significant to Egyptian government journalists when using social media platforms.…”

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Credibility evaluation of scientific information on websites: Designing and evaluating an exploratory model

Keshavarz

Givi

Norouzi

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The present study aimed to develop a literature-based and expert-modified model for credibility evaluation of scientific web information in order to be used for academic purposes by utilizing a mixed heuristic method. First, meta-synthesis was applied to design a conceptual model. In terms of its usability, the model was evaluated by a sample of student users in five top universities of Iran. The data were analyzed by SPSS 20.0 and LISREL 8.7 for Structural Equation Modelling. Based on the seven-stage meta-synthesis, a conceptual model, including 68 indicators, 14 components, and two main dimensions was identified. The model was confirmed by the sample experts by considering the high degree of Kendall’s coefficient of concordance and the agreement percentage of most dimensions of the model which were 0.67 and higher than 90%, respectively. Next, the results of confirmatory factor analysis were analyzed according to the structural model and indices related to the goodness of fit in order to ensure a high quality respecting measuring the identified variables. Based on data analysis, the variables were of high quality in the studied context although there were some differences among the dimensions. The results further revealed that credibility evaluation is a concept with different and multiple dimensions and components suitable for users, designers, and policymakers which should be considered in designing and evaluating web resources.

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National culture and trust in online health information

Cited by 15 publications

References 223 publications

Social capital and health information seeking in China

Social capital and health information seeking in China

Effective ways to combat online medical and scientific misinformation: A hermeneutic narrative review and analysis

Credibility evaluation of scientific information on websites: Designing and evaluating an exploratory model

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