Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

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dc.citation.issue12
dc.citation.volume9
dc.contributor.authorJia X
dc.contributor.authorPang Y
dc.contributor.authorLiu LS
dc.coverage.spatialSwitzerland
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-21T02:09:45Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-21T22:15:29Z
dc.date.available2021-12-16
dc.date.available2023-09-21T02:09:45Z
dc.date.available2023-09-21T22:15:29Z
dc.date.issued2021-12
dc.date.updated2023-09-20T23:43:33Z
dc.description.abstractThe last five years have seen a leap in the development of information technology and social media. Seeking health information online has become popular. It has been widely accepted that online health information seeking behavior has a positive impact on health information consumers. Due to its importance, online health information seeking behavior has been investigated from different aspects. However, there is lacking a systematic review that can integrate the findings of the most recent research work in online health information seeking, and provide guidance to governments, health organizations, and social media platforms on how to support and promote this seeking behavior, and improve the services of online health information access and provision. We therefore conduct this systematic review. The Google Scholar database was searched for existing research on online health information seeking behavior between 2016 and 2021 to obtain the most recent findings. Within the 97 papers searched, 20 met our inclusion criteria. Through a systematic review, this paper identifies general behavioral patterns, and influencing factors such as age, gender, income, employment status, literacy (or education) level, country of origin and places of residence, and caregiving role. Facilitators (i.e., the existence of online communities, the privacy feature, real-time interaction, and archived health information format), and barriers (i.e., low health literacy, limited accessibility and information retrieval skills, low reliable, deficient and elusive health information, platform censorship, and lack of misinformation checks) to online health information seeking behavior are also discovered.
dc.format.extent1740-
dc.identifierARTN 1740
dc.identifierhealthcare9121740
dc.identifierhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34946466
dc.identifier.citationJia X, Pang Y, Liu LS. (2021). Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review.. Healthcare (Basel). 9. 12. (pp. 1740-).
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/healthcare9121740
dc.identifier.eissn2227-9032
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn2227-9032
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/20166
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherMDPI (Basel, Switzerland)
dc.relation.isPartOfHealthcare (Basel)
dc.rights(c) 2021 The Author/sen_US
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjecthealth information consumers
dc.subjectonline HISB
dc.subjectonline health information seeking behavior
dc.subjectsocial
dc.titleOnline Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id450248
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