Searching for Health Information

Freimuth, Vicki S.; Stein, Judith A.; Kean, Thomas J.

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“…For our study, we used the Health Information Acquisition Model 17 to guide focus group question development and analysis. This model focuses on the health information seeking process, including cost/benefit analysis of searching and evaluation and adequacy of information.…”

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“…This model focuses on the health information seeking process, including cost/benefit analysis of searching and evaluation and adequacy of information. 17 Interview guides for each life stage were developed using an iterative process during several meetings with a research team. The topics pertaining to health information were: interpersonal and media sources, source trustworthiness, dealing with contradictory information, and how information affects decision-making.…”

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The Role of Health Information Sources in Decision-Making Among Hispanic Mothers During Their Children’s First 1000 Days of Life

Criss

Baidal

Goldman

et al. 2015

Matern Child Health J

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Objective This qualitative research aimed to explore how health information sources inform decision-making among Hispanic mothers during their children’s first 1000 days of life (conception-age 24 months), and to generate appropriate health information sources and communication strategies for future interventions. Methods We conducted 7 focus groups with 49 Hispanic women who were pregnant or had children < 2 years old. Domains included interpersonal and media sources, source trustworthiness, dealing with contradictory information, and how information affects decision-making. We used immersion/crystallization process for analysis. Results Trusted health information sources included health care providers, female and male family members, BabyCenter.com and other Internet sources, selected social media, and television. Some immigrant women reported preferring the Internet citing less established local support networks. Women highlighted the importance of validating health information through checking multiple sources for consistency and resolving contradictory information. Mothers expressed interest in receiving reliable website links from healthcare professionals and outreach to extended family. Conclusion Cultural factors, including immigration status, are important in understanding the use of health information sources and their role in decision-making about pregnancy and child health among Hispanic mothers. Healthcare providers and public health professionals should consider Hispanic mothers health information environment and provide culturally-relevant communication strategies and interventions during this high information-seeking time period.

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The Role of Health Information Sources in Decision-Making Among Hispanic Mothers During Their Children’s First 1000 Days of Life

Criss

Baidal

Goldman

et al. 2015

Matern Child Health J

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“…Within the CMIS framework, demographic factors are considered important to predict the use of health information resources, including participation in online support groups. Previous research documented that factors such as age and race predicted differential use of various health information resources (Carlsson, 2000; Freimuth, Stein, & Kean, 1989; Johnson, 1997; Leydon et al, 2000). With age, comfort with using technology (Assael, 2005) and the propensity to use the Internet for health information (Ybarra & Suman, 2006) tend to decrease, which will likely make older patients less active in online support groups.…”

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Lurking as an Active Participation Process: A Longitudinal Investigation of Engagement with an Online Cancer Support Group

Han¹,

Hou²,

Kim³

et al. 2013

Health Communication

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To better understand participation in computer-mediated social support (CMSS) groups for breast cancer patients, this study examines two overarching questions of: 1) who are posters, lurkers, or non-users? and 2) what role do these different types of engagement play in explaining psychosocial health outcomes? This study incorporates the comprehensive model of information seeking and two competing models of social enhancement and social compensation, as well as the literature of lurking and posting behaviors in online groups to answer research questions. Our findings suggest that patterns of engagement in a CMSS group differed according to patients’ socio-demographic characteristics and psychosocial factors. In addition, we found that lurkers have a higher level of perceived functional well-being than posters at 3 months post-baseline. Theoretical and practical implications for effective online cancer support group campaigns are discussed.

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“…Poverty, more than race or ethnicity, impacted the public's information-seeking. The ''information poor'' often had inadequate processing skills and were locked in an information ghetto, fatalistic, and overdependent on television as a communication channel (Freimuth, Stein, & Kean, 1989).The information and communication revolution of the last 10 years demands that we update these findings. Fortunately, the National Cancer Institute, (NCI) has created a tool to help us.…”

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The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS): Development, Design, and Dissemination

Freimuth

2004

Journal of Health Communication

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In 1989 Judith Stein, Tom Kean, and I published a book on cancer information-seeking using a database of more than one million calls to the Cancer Information Service. From those data and other surveys conducted in the early 1980s a picture of the public emerged as a group keenly aware of cancer, underestimating its incidence and overestimating its mortality, and feeling helpless about preventing it. At that time, the public reported using television, newspapers, and magazines as channels to get cancer prevention information.The only sources of cancer information recognized by significant proportions of the population were the American Cancer Society and personal physicians. Poverty, more than race or ethnicity, impacted the public's information-seeking. The ''information poor'' often had inadequate processing skills and were locked in an information ghetto, fatalistic, and overdependent on television as a communication channel (Freimuth, Stein, & Kean, 1989).The information and communication revolution of the last 10 years demands that we update these findings. Fortunately, the National Cancer Institute, (NCI) has created a tool to help us. The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) is an incredibly powerful survey that assists researchers to examine health information-seeking in the Internet age. The HINTS' unique attributes include its large sample size, its theorygrounded design, and its potential for repeated data collection. The NCI has created a website where researchers can register presentations using the data, abstracts of research in progress, and publications (http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/hints/research.html). An analysis of the 27 abstracts registered at the time this article was written provides excellent examples of these unique attributes.First, the HINTS' sample size (6,369) with oversampling of minorities is an asset that few other surveys can claim. It will be possible with this dataset to separately analyze the information-seeking behaviors of important minority and socioeconomic groups. It also will be possible to cull out large enough samples of specialized groups. Finney Rutten and colleagues have used the HINTS to study why men aged 50 and older use prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Because of HINTS large sample size they are able to compare groups on such demographics as age, race/ethnicity, education, and health insurance. Clayman and colleagues are comparing credibility of various sources between Hispanics who completed the survey in either Spanish or in English. These opportunities hold much promise for developing a more sophisticated understanding of health information-seeking.Second, the HINTS survey instrument has been developed on a foundation of health behavior and communication theories, making it possible for researchers to

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Searching for Health Information

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The Role of Health Information Sources in Decision-Making Among Hispanic Mothers During Their Children’s First 1000 Days of Life

The Role of Health Information Sources in Decision-Making Among Hispanic Mothers During Their Children’s First 1000 Days of Life

Lurking as an Active Participation Process: A Longitudinal Investigation of Engagement with an Online Cancer Support Group

The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS): Development, Design, and Dissemination

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